Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.27

c3.27

Mr. Law’s notice of Sher Shah is brief, but as full as is consistent with the purpose of the book. Sher Shah, as he himself lamented, only came by his own at evensong, and when his hair was grey. He was also prematurely slain. But in spite of his perfidies, and of his supplementing the lion’s skin with the fox’s, he was a great prince and much superior to his adversary, Humāyūn. He earned the enthusiastic praise of Badā’ūnī, who, in imitation of a saying of the Prophet, thanked God that he had been born in the reign of so just a king.