Storia do Mogor 76: Aurangzeb discovers the Imposture of the Faqir who buried his Horse.

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The assumed devoutness of Aurangzeb served him to discover the imposture of a soldier. This man's horse had died, and having no funds to buy another, he decided to bury the horse outside the city of Dihli, on a small eminence not far from the royal road to Lahor. He took the garb of a faqir, and pretended great devoutness, collecting offerings, which were never lacking, the Moguls having an easy method of devotion, consisting in visits to tombs great or small, in order to obtain what they are in need of. I have even seen the wives of Christians send their sons and grandsons, when they were unwell, in order to obtain benefit from these tombs by making the children touch them with their bodies. For all the preaching of the priests against this abuse, it has not been abandoned; since the Christian women in India are more inclined to heathendom and superstition than to the true Faith or the recognised aids of holy Mother Church.
Aurangzeb passed close to the aforesaid tomb, and seeing so much adornment, asked what saint was buried there. The faqir replied that it was the tomb of Melecdinar (Malik Dinar). Aurangzeb began to think over this answer, and said he had never heard of such a saint. He should therefore like to see the body. He ordered the tomb to be opened, and in it was the skeleton of a horse. The king directed that everything round it should be destroyed, and after the faqir had been flogged he was banished. Hereby arose great fame for Aurangzeb as being well acquainted with all the saints of the Mahomedans, and also a diviner of occult things.