تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.40.4

12.40.4

وكان عبيده يخدمون تلك الأرض نهارا ويدخلون الغار ليلا ويسدونه على أنفسهم وأنعامهم خوف سراق الكفار لأنهم في جبل منيع هنالك، ولما عاد السلطان إلى حضرته استقبله الشيخ ولقيه على سبعة أميال منها فعظمه السلطان وعانقه عند لقائه، وعاد إلى غاره، ثم بعث عنه بعد أيام فامتنع من إتيانه، فبعث إليه مخلص الملك النذرباري ، وكان من كبراء الملوك فتلطف له في القول وحذره بطش السلطان فقال له: لا أخدم ظالما أبدا! فعاد مخلص الملك إلى السلطان فأخبره بذلك فأمر أن ياتي به، فأتى به فقال له: أنت القائل:

His slaves worked that land by day and entered the cave by night, closing it upon themselves and their livestock for fear of infidel thieves, because they were in an inaccessible mountain there. When the Sultan returned to his capital, the shaykh went out to receive him and met him seven miles from it; the Sultan honoured him and embraced him when they met, and he returned to his cave. Then some days later he sent for him, and he refused to come. So he sent to him Mukhliṣ al-Mulk al-Nadhrbārī, one of the great maliks, who spoke gently to him and warned him of the Sultan's fury. He said to him, 'I will never serve a tyrant!' Mukhliṣ al-Mulk returned to the Sultan and told him this, and he ordered that he be brought, and he was brought. He said to him, 'Are you the one who says