تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.3.2

13.3.2

his vizier Khwāja Jahān to go to the city of Kamālpūr, a large city on the seashore whose inhabitants had rebelled. One of the jurists told me that he was present when the vizier entered it. He said: The qāḍī and the preacher of the city were brought before him, and he ordered them to be flayed. They said to him, "Kill us some other way." He said to them, "For what have you deserved death?" They said, "For disobeying the Sultan's command." He said to them, "Then how can I disobey his command, when he has ordered me to kill you by this death?" And he told those charged with flaying them, "Dig holes for them under their faces in which they can breathe" — for when they are flayed, God preserve us, they are laid on their faces. When this had been done, the land of Sind was pacified and the Sultan returned to his capital.