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excellent and learned teacher of the Hadis, had come to Multan, 

 bringing with him a collection of four hundred works on the Hadis. 

 He would not go beyond Multan, because he had heard that the Sul- 

 tan said no prayers, nor attended the Friday-prayer in the mosque. 

 Fazlullah, son of Shaikhul Islam Qadruddin, became his pupil. This 

 learned man, while at Multan, wrote a commentary on the Science of the 

 Hadis, which he sent, together with a pamphlet in Persian, to Court. 

 In the preface, he had said much to the praise of the Sultan. In the 

 pamphlet the following passage occurred. ' I have come from Egypt 

 with the wish of seeing your Majesty and the city of Dihli, and my 

 intention was there to establish a school of followers of the Hadis,* 

 and to deliver the Musalmans from acting upon the traditions of 

 learned but irreligious men. But when I heard that your Majesty 

 says no prayers, nor attends the mosque on Fridays, I returned from 

 Multan. However, I heard of two or three qualities which your 

 Majesty possesses in common with pious kings, and I also heard that 

 your Majesty has two or three qualities which do not belong to reli- 

 gious kings.'] 



[' Now, the good sides of your Majesty are these. I am told that 

 the wretchedness and the misery and the despicable condition and the 

 worthlessness of the Hindus are now so great, that Hindu children and 

 women will go about begging at the doors of the Musalmans. Hail, 

 king of Islam ! the protection which thou affordest the religion of 

 Muhammad (God's peace rest on him !) is such that, if for a single act 

 done by thee to the glory of Islam, a measure of sins filling Heaven 

 and Earth be not forgiven thee, thou may est grasp the hem of my 

 garment on the morrow of resurrection.'] 



[Secondly, I have heard that thou hast made grain and apparel and 

 other things so cheap, that no one could improve matters by the 

 breadth of the point of a needle ; and it is a matter of astonishment 

 how in this important matter also, which interests all men on earth, 

 and which other kings of Islam have striven to bring about by labours 

 extending over twenty, thirty years, and yet have failed, thou, king 

 of Islam, hast so well succeeded.'] 



* I. e., the Maulana rejected the decisions of the early lawyers, unless based 

 upon the Qoran and the Hadis. 



