The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.140
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.140
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He was a master of malevolent activity, idle jests, conceit, pride, and malice, and an epitome of hypocrisy, baseness, dissimulation, love of pomp, arrogance, and ostentation. All Jews, Christians and Fireworshippers, not to speak of *Nizārīs* and *Sabāhīs*, held him in the very highest honour for his heresy, his enmity to the followers of Islām, his contemptuous abuse of the noble companions of the prophet, and of holy shaikhs, both dead and living, and of his unmannerly behaviour towards all learned, pious, and excellent men. . . . He used to regard all forbidden things as lawful, and all the injunctions of the sacred law as unlawful.¹