Storia do Mogor 52.1

52.1

This king did not yield to his people the love and affection that his two predecessors had done. On the contrary, he was a great tyrant, and did much injury to his vassals, chastising them most rigorously and unjustly. This was the reason that, seeing themselves so oppressed, they resolved upon slaying their king and delivering themselves from such an encumbrance. Abu Sa'id learnt that not only the people, but also the nobles of the court, were resolved to kill him. He therefore decided to absent himself. Disguising himself in the garb of a mendicant, and taking with him two servants, he would beg alms in foreign lands, and thus escape with his life. He fled, and the nobles placed upon the throne his brother, expecting to secure better treatment from the second son of Miran Shah than they had obtained from the elder brother. But they were treated according to the proverb, 'Whoever flees from the lesser evil often finishes with falling into greater.' For this second son, without right or reason, ordered the beheadal of high and low, rich and poor, lords and serving-men, making no distinctions. Not content with robbing them of wealth and honour, he wanted in addition to drink the blood of the innocent.