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him a large sum, and then confirmed his. son's. rent-free land on 
hin, | Sup audeiy 
[Verse.] 
God favours that man, a ar 
Whose life gives repose to the people. [119,b.] ° ~~“ 
The wise know that the resumption of the lands of aimadars 
and the cutting off of the subsistence of stipend-holders bring 
[ 
[Verse. ] 
~The dark sigh of sufferers, in the heart of dark nights, 
‘Snatches away by [God’s] command the mole of pros- 
perity from the cheek of the oppressor. 
to bestow imlak on the needy and idrar on the poor. The hinder- 
ing of such liberality and the stoppage of such charity does not 
bring any gain in this world and involves one in the Creator’s 
120,a.] One day thare was a talk on this subject in the 
Nawwab’s co As “the words of kings are kings amon 
e 
people, too, should be counted among the needy. And one should 
not through his own meanness of spirit and vileness of heart 
resume the charitable gifts of others.” 
n short, the Nawwab’s natural kindness having been excited, 
= ordered that Mir Sayyid Sadiq, the Sadr, should fully recognise 
‘As for what was held [rent-free] in the fiefs of jagirdars, if it 
amounted. to one-fortieth of the total revenue of the jagirdar, he 
should consider it as the zakat on his property and spare it. But 
=~ — out Pt above order in the case of a 
Penta oN Jagirs of [other] jagirdars 121,a.]. In the 
Vo awwab his diwan-i-baiuine Khawiel Murlidhar,— 
n brought up and trained in the Nawwab’s household; 
