Towards the close of his life Khosru Parviz—like many others whose fortunes are predestined to decline—exchanged his laudable qualities for reprehensible ones, by tearing up the letter which the prophet (the benediction of Allah be on him) had sent him—as will afterwards be narrated by the favour of Allah—and by imprisoning a great multitude of soldiers who had fled from the boundaries of Rûm and had come to Madâin. He also became extremely suspicious, because astrologers had predicted that in a short time one of his sons would beget a scion, from whom the kingdom would pass over to strangers. He therefore retained his sons in his palace, lest they might have intercourse with women, and he imagined that he could thus nullify the decrees of fate. He had also killed No’mân Bin Munzar, and appointed Ayâs Bin Qobaissah Tâyi to govern Arabia, because he had aided him in his flight to Rûm. To these crimes he added other wicked deeds, which so exasperated the civil and military officers of his government that they deposed him by common consent in the ninth year of the Hegira, and installed on the throne of royalty his son Qobâd, who is known by the name of Shiruiah. Parviz was removed from the capital, and imprisoned in the house of a high officer of the army, where he was guarded by five hundred soldiers. His reign lasted thirty-eight years.*