تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.35.4

13.35.4

Malik Ṣabīḥ travelled to the Sultan at Dawlat Ābād, and he asked him about the state of the people. He told him: "If there were two men in Dihlī like so-and-so, no one would complain of hardship!" This pleased the Sultan, and he sent me a robe of honour from his own clothes. On the festivals—namely the two ʿĪds, the noble Mawlid, the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, the night of mid-Shaʿbān, and the anniversary of the death of Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn—I used to prepare a hundred maunds of flour and the same of meat, from which the poor and needy ate. As for those on the stipend, there would be placed before each of them his own portion. Let us describe their custom in this.