Mughal Administration c12.s6.8

c12.s6.8

But the Shias had good reasons for concealing their faith from him.* In one letter of Aurangzib we read how he was alarmed at the coincidence that the paymaster and two nazims of Lahore were Shias, and immediately ordered that the former should be transferred elsewhere. (Kalimat-Tay., 16a.) Very late in his reign, he objected to the practice of sending the bones of rich Shias secretly after death to Karbala and Mashhad for burial. This he regarded as a superstition, (Ibid, 12a), though he himself practised the gross idolatry of adoring the Prophet’s bogus footprints on stone and his hairs (asar-i-sharif.)