Storia do Mogor 340.1.5

340.1.5

His business was to dispute with learned men and doctors of theology, and point out the road assigned to us by the Messiah. He made attacks on the Quran, as if already vexed with life and longing to sacrifice himself. He soon obtained his desires. He visited the principal qâzî when seated in public audience, and said: 'All men assert you to be the most learned man in this province; for this cause I have come to find if it is true.' Then began various disputations, the youth extolling the Gospel and decrying what Muhammad had enjoined. At this point the qãzi flew into a great passion, and along with all the other doctors present fell upon the young man, and endeavoured to force him into a disavowal. The beating they gave him produced no effect, so they dragged him away to prison. Every day he was sent for to be catechized; the questions were accompanied with many promises and honied words. Since there was no result, the beating was resumed. This martyrdom lasted for forty days. An appeal to A'zam Tãrã was equally ineffective, and finding all efforts fruitless, they cut off the young man's head, and threw his body on to a dung-heap outside the city, to be devoured by dogs and wolves. As it appears to me, this man must have been some disciple of Qāsim Mir.