Next succeeded to the throne, and came to Delhī. At this time Malik Ikhtiyāru-d-Dīn Altūnīyah* the ruler of Tabarhindah having espoused the Sulān Raẓẓīyah, and having gained over certain of the Amīrs and a body of the Jats* and Khūkhars, and all the land­holders, brought an army towards Delhī. Sulān Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Bahrām Shāh, sent the Malik* Balban the younger (who even­tually became Sulān Ghīyāu-d-Dīn) with a vast army to oppose Raẓẓīyah, and a battle ensued in which the forces of Raẓẓīyah were defeated. She then went to Tabarhindah, and a second time col­lected her forces and rallied her scattered troops, and arrived in the neighbourhood of the village of Katīhal* with the intention of conquering Delhī, and again being defeated at the hands of the Malik Balban the younger, took to flight and both she and Altūnīyah fell into the hands of the Kawārs* and were put to death by order of Sulān Bahrām Shāh.

This event took place in the year 637 H. (1239 A.D.),* and the duration of the reign of Raẓẓīyah was three years six months and six days.

A head which the neck carries loftily
That same head later finds a rope round its neck.

When the sovereign power was firmly established in the hands of Sulān Bahrām Shāh, Malik Ikhtiyāru-d-Dīn Ītkīn who was ^86. formerly Hājib and was married to a sister of the Sulán, and had got all the affairs of the kingdom into his own hands by the assistance of Niāmu-l-Mulk Muhaẕẕabu-d-Dīn, being accustomed always to keep a large elephant tied up at his door, like a king, was murdered in the year 638 H. together with Muhaẕẕabu-d-Dīn Wazīr, by certain Fidāīs,* by the orders of the Sulān, and in this year the Sulān dealt with a party composed of Amīrs and chief men, and leading nobles, and grandees, and judges who used to hold secret meetings to discuss a change of monarchy and the appointment of a new king. Some of them he put to death, and some, as for example Badru-d-Dīn Sangar Amīr Ḥājib* he sent to Badāon where they died in prison. Among them was Qāẓī Jalālu-d-Dīn Kāshānī, whom they removed from his military command and appointed Qāẓī of Badāon, and Qāẓī Shamsu-d-Dīn the Qāẓī of Mārhira* they threw under the feet of an elephant in the same way.

And in the year 639 H. the troops of the Mughūl Changīz Khān came and invested the city of Lahore, and Malik Qarāqash the Governor of Lahore fled one day at midnight and came to Dehlī, where the Sulān pledged the Amīrs anew to fealty, and having summoned a conference sent Niāmu-l-Mulk* Wazīr, who at heart was not friendly to the Sulān, to oppose the Mughūl force in the Panjāb. He, with craft and hypocrisy wrote a letter to the Sulān and made many complaints of the Amīrs who were with him, and begged the Sulān to come. The Sulān, however, not thinking it advisable to go in person, wrote a despatch to him in apparent sincerity, saying, “those recalcitrant Amīrs shall meet their punish­ment in due time, you should treat them with civility* till then.” He shewed that despatch in original to the Amīrs and brought them over to his side, and the Sulān Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Bahrām ^87. Shāh sent Ḥaẓrat Shaikhu-l-Islām Khwāja-i-Khwājagān Qubu-d-Dīn Bakhtyār Ūshī,* may God sanctify him, to the Amīrs to put matters straight and to quell the disturbance, but without success; the Shaikhu-l-Islām returned and came to Dehlī, and just at this juncture Niāmu-l-Mulk and the Amīrs also arrived and besieged the Sulān in Dehlī,* and taking him captive imprisoned him, and after a few days despatched him to the next world* and set up another king in his place.

The times of old have had this habit
To take from this man and give to that.

The duration of his reign was two years and one month and fifteen days.