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Mubarak now went to Bengal. On his way, one night, he bad a dream and 
saw the revered saint Jalaluddin Tabriz!, who said to him, “ I will give thee 
the kingdom of Bengal; hut thou wilt have to build me a vault.” ’All 
Mubarak put the finger of acceptance on his eye, and asked where it was to 
be built. The saint replied, 44 In the town of Panduah at a place where thou 
wilt see thirty bricks one over another, and below them a fresh rose of 
a hundred petals.” 
4 When ’All Mubarak arrived in Bengal, he entered the service of Qadar 
Khan, [the Imperial governor of Lak’hnauti] and received from him the 
command ( bakhsliigari ) of the army. But when Fakliruddin revolted against 
Qadar Khan, ’All Mubarak killed his benefactor, and proclaimed himself 
king under the title of Sultan ’Alauddin. He then made war upon 
Fakliruddin, and slew him 44 as a punishment for having killed his benefactor.” 
Leaving thanahs in (the province of) Lak’hnauti, ’Alauddin marched to 
subjugate other parts of Bengal. But from the time he had proclaimed 
himself king, the whirlpool of pleasure had made him forgetful of his promise 
to the Saint, when one night Jalaluddin again appeared to him and said, 
“ O Sultan ’Alauddin, thou art now king of Bengal, but me thou hast 
forgotten.” The king next day at once searched for the bricks, and found 
them just as the saint had described. There he built the vault, the ruins of 
which exist to this day. 
4 Now about this time Haji Ilyas also arrived in Panduah. Sultan 
’Alauddin put him into prison, but after some time, at the request of his 
mother who had been Sultan ’Alauddin’s nurse, he set him at liberty, and 
allowed him to come to court. Haji Ilyas, in a short time, found means to 
gain over the army, killed ’Alauddin with the help of the eunuch, and 
proclaimed himself king under the name of Shamsuddm Bhangrah. 
4 The reiffn of Sultan ’Alauddin lasted one year and five months.’ 
This extract is so far satisfactory, as it explains the relation between 
Firuz Shah, ’Ali Mubarak, and Haji Ilyas. 
The evidence of coins, as in the case of the preceding king, gives 
’Alauddin ’Ali Shall a longer reign than the histories. Mr. Thomas (Chronicles, 
p 2G5) gives a coin of the year 742, and he adds that he has seen coins of 
7 14 745, 746. There is nothing strange in the name '’All Mubarak , which 
he thinks has arisen from 44 a strange jumble of Muhammadan writers, 
who endowed ’Ali Shah with the surname of liis adversary Mubarak Shall 
for ’Ali Mubarak is as common a name as Mubarak ’Ali, and the histories 
say that this was ’Ali Shah’s name before accession. 
From the fact that the coinage of Mubarak Shah is restricted to the 
Sunnargaon mint, and that of’Ali Shah to Firuzabad ( i . e. Panduah), we may 
conclude that the former held Eastern, and the latter Western Bengal. 
But ’Ali SI rah was vigorously opposed by Haji Ilyas, who struck coins 
