Storia do Mogor 340.1.2

340.1.2

He set out on his return to India, and on arriving at court he laid his book before his majesty. The principal doctors of the law within the empire, four hundred of them, were summoned, and received orders to read and consider the book, examining it most minutely. After the lapse of some months they returned the book, saying that on the whole it set forth the true faith, and its precepts might rightly be followed. Aurangzeb, as a keen Mahomedan, was alarmed, and confiscated his (Qãzí Mīr's) property, and also caused the book to be burnt in his presence. He directed the chief qãzí to pronounce a sentence of beheadal on the author [239b], Qāzī Mīr. The chief qāzī replied that he found in him no fault requiring death, and if under royal compulsion he sent an order of execution, it would be a manifest injustice. After listening to these arguments, the king directed that Qāzī Mīr should be removed as a prisoner to the fortress of Aser (Asīr), of which I have already spoken in connection with the conquests of the great emperor Akbar, as you will have already seen in my First Part (I. 75).