History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c12.19

c12.19

The Sultan did not accept the Qazi's advice, for he was too wise to play into the hands of the clericalists. Again when Maulana Shams-al-Din Turk, an exponent of Hadis came from Egypt to wait upon the Sultan, he heard at Multan that the august monarch whom he was going to visit did not observe the prescribed prayers. He decided to go back, but he sent to the Sultan a small tract written in Persian which, in addition to his reasons for the abandonment of his proposed visit, contained the following observations which clearly indicate the attitude of a typical mediaeval canonist towards the non-Muslim population. He wrote:—