Later Mughals v1.c6.s24.3

v1.c6.s24.3

At first Bahadur Shah held firmly to his purpose, the khatib, or reciter of the prayer, at Lahor was arrested and sent to be imprisoned at Agra, while Islam Khan received orders to march into the city on the next Friday at the head of all the artillery and to see that the khutba in the form appointed was duly read. But finally on the 2nd October, 1711, the khutba in the old form was recited at the Jama Masjid of Lahor in the presence of a large armed force and many of the nobles, who had been sent to preserve order. The form accepted was the same as in Alamgir's reign. In it were many honorific titles attached to the name of Ali, but the actual word in dispute, wasi, did not appear. The fact that the Emperor had given way was hardly known and several thousand men of every class had assembled round the mosque ready for an outbreak, and it was only when they heard the old khutba that they dispersed. [Kamwar.]*