[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942) › c8.36 # The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c8.36 The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c8.36 - **Language:** English ### [c8.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8.36) Qāḍī Mughīth was a little too exacting on the question of the sultan’s personal expenditure. He laid before the sultan the ideal of the early caliphs who preferred to live a life of poverty rather than burden the public treasury with heavy expenditure. That ideal had long vanished and was found only in text-books of maxims; very few jurists have laid any great stress on the limitation of the royal expenditure, realizing well that the grandeur of the monarch’s court was a public institution of great value. Nor could ‘Alā-u’d-dīn be justly accused of extravagance, for he is reported to have been one of the most careful monarchs in the matter of economy. “Qāḍī Mughīth! Though I have no learning and have hardly read a book,” protested the sultan, “yet I am a Muslim and a descendant of generations of Muslims.” The sultan then explained that he was ignorant of the law, but his severity was mostly directed against evil-doers in the best traditions of religion. - [Previous: c8.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8.35) - [Next: c8.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8.37) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c8.36) · Pramāṇa