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² Compare ibid., 154-155; compare also the Memoirs of Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, 317, for the considered opinion of the monarch. According to him the ‘Ulama of his times were singularly irreligious. They were notorious for concealing the truth and their greed for money made them vicious and godless. They had degraded themselves to the position of petty ‘job-hunters’. In a word, the dignity of Islam and religious integrity had disappeared from the face of the earth.