[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Qaraunah Turks in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936) › c6.183 # History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.183 History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.183 - **Language:** English ### [c6.183](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.183) repeatedly from trustworthy persons, and it is well known, that as Sultan Tughluq was displeased with his reverence Shaikh Nizam-al-Din Aulia, he sent a message to the latter, telling him to leave Dihli, by the time he would himself arrive there ; and the Shaikh said, ‘ Dihli is far off yet.’⁷⁸ To follow Nizam-al-Din’s statement it is necessary to examine the relations of the Sultan with the Shaikh. Shaikh Nizam-al-Din had strong leanings towards Sufism and was looked upon as heterodox by the ‘Ulama.⁷⁹ A man of great renunciation he had once quarrelled with Mubarak Khilji and refused to bow to his authority. His relations with Sultan Ghiyas-al-Din were of a definitely unfriendly character. Besides the testimony of Ibn Batūtah there is further evidence to prove the strained relations between the Sultan and the Shaikh. Nizam-al-Din, Firishta and Hajji-ad-Dabīr both relate at length the story of this estrangement and they are supported by the Matlūb-al-Tālibīn, a biography of the Shaikh, which was compiled from reliable sources in 1698 A.D. Hajji-ad-Dabīr relies for his account upon the Sair-al-‘ārifin written by one Hāmid bin Fazl Ullah better known by his surname Darwesh Jamālī during the reign of the Mughal emperor Humayun.⁸⁰ Firishta also seems to have drawn upon this work, for its name is mentioned among the authorities. which he consulted in preparing his history, but his account is less full than that of Hajji-ad-Dabīr. The author of the Matlūb-al-Tālibīn, though a later writer, mentions several works which he utilised in preparing his biography, some of which seem to be uncommon. There is no disagreement between the authorities of Hajji-ad-Dabīr and Firishta and those of Muhammad Bulāq in this matter. Bulāq’s treatise which is entirely devoted to the Shaikh’s life sketches the early history of the Shaikh and describes how he fell out with the kings of Dihli. The quarrel between the Shaikh and the Sultan was due to two causes⁸¹ :— - [Previous: c6.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.182) - [Next: c6.184](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.184) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.183](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.183) · Pramāṇa