Note 5 — The Nineteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

At this time it was represented to me in a report5 by the news writer of the Deccan that Mahābat K. had ordered ʿĀrif s. Zāhid to be executed, and had put him (i.e., Zāhid), with two other sons, in prison. It appeared that that wretched man had written with his own hand a petition to Bī-daulat representing on the part of his father and himself his loyalty, sincerity, repentance, and shame. By fate that letter fell into the hands of Mahābat K. Having sent for ʿĀrif into his presence he showed him the letter. As he had written a decree for his own blood, he could not make any acceptable excuse, and of necessity he was executed, and his father and brothers imprisoned.