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collection of his revenues, than was Sultan Tugliluq Shah, who 
would remit from lacs to thousands, and from thousands to hun¬ 
dreds ; so that if it were told him by his councillors in his presence, 
that such a one is in bonds, because of arrears which are due to the 
treasury, and offers as security for the lacs which are due from him 
ten thousand or five thousand tankahs, even with this much would 
he be satisfied, and would order the debtor to be released, and bid 
him make arrangements for payment of the balance, holding it 
wrong that any man should remain long in bonds for arrears of 
revenue. In no matter did he approve of vexatious enquiry, or of 
exaction; for he wished that the affairs of his kingdom should be 
administered according to the laws. Such things also as give rise 
to irritation among the people, both he and his Councillors 
were careful to avoid, desiring that the minds of all classes of his 
people should be at rest: for he wished not that men should be 
perplexed because of him. Sultan Tugliluq Shah eschewed all mea¬ 
sures which should disturb rule or order, and all acts without pur¬ 
pose, such as bear fruit only in sorrow and vexation to the people. 
Nevertheless man is born ungrateful, and it has been said by God 
in the Qoran that u all men are thankless.” 
So it happened that the covetous and the envious, the wicked and 
the faithless, spoke evilly even of such an upright and just king ; 
and those who without cause had obtained rewards, and monies, 
from Qutbuddfn, in a time of forgetfulness and folly, and from 
Khusrau Khan at the time of his despair, spoke harm of Sultan Tugh- 
luq Sliah, and made complaint of that just and upright one, and 
looked for the overthrow of his empire, making eyes one at another, 
and speaking folly ; and they said also of him, who was generous 
above all men, that he was covetous. Now I, Zia i Barani, who also 
wrote the annals of Finiz Shall, have heard from the tongues of 
many men of experience, whose eyes, looking for the judgment to 
come, were anointed with the ointment of justice, that they, re- 
regarding only the welfare of the Faith, and the well being of Mu- 
salmans, declared that no such king as Sultan Tugliluq Shall had 
ever sat upon the throne of Delhi, nor was it probable that such 
another would ever be seated upon that throne. For all the wis¬ 
dom and knowledge and merit and justice, that is needed in a 
