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HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAHI KINGS OF AHMADNAGAR
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holy places, now that you have attained your object here, you have an opportunity of departing. Mustafa Khân, who had long been apprehensive of evil from Ibrâhîm's hasty and violent disposition, gladly seized this opportunity to assemble his horses, elephants and everything in this category, and joined the camp of Husain Nizam Shah, in whose service he remained until the day of his death.188
Husain Nizâm Shâh then pursued his leisurely way to his capital, eating, drinking, and making merry by the way.' On his approaching the capital, the Sayyids, saints, great men, and the general public, came forth to greet him and to pray for his long life and prosperity, each man offering what he could. They were welcomed by the king and he then entere: the fort of Ahmadnagar.
LXIX.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF HUSAIN NIZAM SHH. When Abu-'l-Muzaffar Husain Nizâm Shah, after overthrowing the infidels, returned to his capital, he engaged himself in administering the affairs of his kingdom and also in gladdening his heart with the wine-cup and the society of lovely cup-bearers and fair damsels. His glory and bodily powers being now at their zenith, began to decline, and the wine which he took to gladden his heart injured his health, and he died.
After the king's death, the learned men at court buried him with great mourning, in the Bigh-i-Nizam, the burial place of his forefathers, and his remains were afterwards removed to Karbala by his son, Murtaza Nizam Shah I, and there buried near the tomb of Imâm 'Abdullah al-Husain.
This calamity occurred on Wednesday, Zil-Qa'dah 7, A.H. 972 (June 6, 1565), the
159.giving the date آفتاب د کن بشد پنهان chronogram
Husain Nizam Shah was a man of praiseworthy disposition and made a laudable end. Islâm rested under the shadow of his justice ; learned men were happy and content under his protection, and all his subjects were at ease and in peace. He left two sons like the two great lights of heaven, each of whom came to the thronz in his turn, as will be related hereafter. May God prolong the reign of his present majesty, the Sahib Qiran, the shadow of God, until the Resurrection. He left four daughters like the four elements, all of whom were married, viz., Chand Bibi, Bibi Jamal, and Bibi Khadijah (the name of the fourth, Aqâ Bibi is not given). 160
LXX.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE REIGN OF ABU'L Guizi MURTA A Nizim SHAH I.
When the amirs and the chief officers of state had leisure from the mourning for, and the funeral ceremonies of, Husain Nizam Shah, they raised Murtaza Nizam Shah, as his eldest son, to the throne, and swore allegiance to him as their king. His formal enthronement was postponed, by the advice of the astrologers, to an auspicious time, but the amirs and vazîrs, in order to set the minds of the army at rest, raised the umbrella and aftábgir over his head and admitted the people to his presence in order that they might make their obeisance to him.
168 Muptafa Khan entered the service of 'Ali 'Adil Shah, not that of Husain Nizam Shah. He was mardered at Bankapur, early in the reign of Ibrahim Adil Shah II. at the instigation of Kish var Khan.
180 Firishta gives this chronogram (ii. 203) which gives the date 972, but does not give the day of Husain Nizam Shah's death. The T.M.Q.8. gives the date given here.
160 H 18ain Nizam ShAh I left four sons and four daughters. By Bibi Khùnza (Khanzada) Humayun he had Murtaza, who succeeded him, and Burhan, afterwards Burhan Nizâm ShAh II, Chand Bibi, married to All Adil Shah I, and Bibi Khadijah, married to Jamal-ud-din Husain Inja. By Surya ho had two MOD, Shah Qasim and Shah Mansur, and two daughtes, AqA Bibi, married to Mir 'Abdul WahhAb, son of Sayyid Abdul Azim, and Bibi Jamal, married to Ibrahim Qutb Shah.
