16 Translations from the Tdri/ch i Firuz Shdhi. [No. 1, 



bour ; or that it is no loss to me, if any one drinks wine ; and that I 

 feel no grief, if any one commits a robbery, for he won't steal anything 

 from my inheritance ; or that if any one takes advances of money and 

 does not go to his work, the work will yet go on, even if ten or twenty 

 people are lazy. With regard to these four things I certainly act 

 according to the orders of the Prophets. But the people of these times, 

 from one to a lac, nay to five hundred lacs and one thousand lacs, do 

 nothing but talk and boast, caring neither for this world nor the world 

 to come. Now I am ignorant and do not know how to read and 

 write ; in fact my whole knowledge consists in saying an Alhamdu 

 (the first chapter of the Qoran), a Qui liua-lldhu (Qor., Sur. 112,) the 

 prayer Qunut (as described in law books), and the formulae of blessing 

 the prophets ; but it is I who have given the order in my realm that a 

 married man who commits adultery with the wife of another, shall be 

 castrated ; and yet, notwithstanding this harsh and bloody order, 

 several men stand before the Palace who have slept with the wives of 

 others.] 



[And those who take advances of money and then do not go to their 

 work, are made liable to refund advances of three years.* But in 

 every employment there are hundreds, two hundreds that are made 

 liable to refund three years' advances, and yet people will take 

 money and not work, and prefer to live broken down in the jails. 

 And for thefts committed in the city, I have reduced to beggary 

 about ten thousand clerks and collectors ; nay, I have made their flesh 

 so sore, that worms eat up their bodies, in order to see whether that 

 bad lot will keep their fingers from stealing ; for keeping accounts and 

 stealing at the same time is what a clerk, in these days, is born to.] 



[And as regards selling and drinking wine, I have killed and am 

 now killing people in the wells. What do they care for being inside ? 

 What is a jail to them ? — They will drink wine, they will sell it. No 

 one has ever managed God's 'pious subjects,' and I can't either.] 



[In the same year in which the Sultan 'Alauddin asked Qazi Mu- 

 ghis on some questions of the law, Maulana Shamsuddin Turk, a very 



* On p. 296, Ed. Bill. Indica, 1. 15 read bd zan i yalce for zan i yoke, and 

 kunad for Tcunand ; on 1. 18, read bistdnad for bistdnand, and bandmzadA for 

 namzadi. 



Bad i burnt zadan (1. 12) is said, of men, to boast; of women, we say bad i 

 gesii zadan. 



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