Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t3.16

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¹ Compare M.A. for a long discussion 55-60, 69; compare in this connection Barani (B.,446) for an interesting personal confession of the historian who also belonged to the class of learned theologians. He declares that he himself along with others of his class had actively helped the Sultans in openly violating the religious injunctions of Islam, by deliberately stretching the meaning of the Qur‘anic texts to carry out the desires of the monarch. ‘I do not know’ says the repentant scholar ‘what will happen to others but my present miseries and sufferings in my old age are largely the fruits of my sayings and doings.’