History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c66.s5.2

v4.c66.s5.2

∗ As the Emperor wrote to his envoy at the Golkonda Court 'This luckless wretch (meaning Abul Hasan Qutb Shah) has given the supreme power in his State to a *kafir* and made Sayyids Shaikhs and scholars subject to that man He has publicly allowed (in his realm) all kinds of sin and vice (viz, taverns brothels and gambling houses) He himself is day and night sunk in the deadly sins through the intoxication of kingship and fails to distinguish between Islam and infidelity, justice and oppression sin and piety By refusing to respect God s commands and prohibitions, by sending aid to infidel Powers and by recently paying one lakh of hun to the *kafir* Shambhu he has made himself accursed before God and man ' (K K ii 328)