Who was called Fīrūz Khān, was raised to the throne in succes­sion to his father at the age of twelve* with the title of Pādshāh.* The affairs of the kingdom did not prosper in his hands, and Mubāriz Khān the son of Niām Khān* Sūr, who was brother's son to Islem Shāh,* after three days attempted the life of that innocent one, and although Bībī Bā'ī, who was the sister of Mu-bāriz Khān,* and the wife of Islem Shāh, fell at his feet and besought him piteously saying: “Ah my brother, spare the life of ^417. this poor harmless boy, and let me take my own way and bear him away* to some place where no one will have a trace of him, and where he will have nothing to do with sovereignty, nay, will not even mention the name of kingship.”* That pitiless tyrant would not heed her, but entered the palace and cut* off the boy's head under the very eyes of his mother. At this day his issue is cut off just as the line of Islem Shāh; and it is said that Islem Shāh had made several attempts upon the life of Mubāriz Khān, and used to say to his wife, “If you value your child keep clear of your brother,* and if you wish to preserve the one, take away all hope of life from the other.” She used to say in a deprecatory way, “My brother spends all his time in amusing himself,* and the robe of royalty is in no way suitable to his standard of ambi­tion; give up the idea of destroying him.”* Islem Shāh how­ever, whenever he saw Mubāriz Khān used to say to his wife in a reproachful way, “In the end you will regret this at a time when regret will avail nothing.” And at last the prophecy of Islem Shāh, which he had made by his judgment of physiognomy, was con­firmed to the letter.*

Verse.

Whatever the young man sees the mirror,
The old man sees that same in the unbaked brick.*