Storia do Mogor 340.1.3

340.1.3

When two years had elapsed Aurangzeb ordered Qāzī Mīr to be shut up in a palanquin and brought to court, and instructed the principal men at the court to use persuasion and induce him to disavow what he had written. But he was fixed and rooted in his opinions, and declined to vary them. Finding this the case, the king had recourse once more to the chief qāzī, and with wheedling words besought him to find some way of putting the man to death. The qāzī declined. Next the king had the prisoner brought into his presence, and said : 'If you will disavow and show penitence for what you have done, your offences will be pardoned.' Qāzī Mīr replied ardently that he meant to give the truth to the public, by whom it was ignored. 'Your majesty must repent and ask God's pardon for having given the true faith to the flames, and for not following its commands. Nay, for acting contrary to it, seizing your father, slaying your brothers, usurping the dominions of others, and unjustly ruining many princes and vassals.' At this point Aurangzeb interrupted by saying that in the Quran Muhammad enjoined the defeat and destruction of the infidel. Qāzī Mīr retorted: 'Muhammad acted as it pleased him; I follow what God ordains.' Upon hearing this, the king ordered him to be taken back to the same fortress, giving secret directions that as soon as he had arrived his life should be taken. This case happened in the year 1690.