Machine summary:
In almost all the recorded cases of conflict, excepting the affairs of Shaikh Baha-ud-din Zakariyya and Saiyyidi Maula, where political con• siderations were involved, the real cause of conflict was the ruler's desire to control and direct the life at the Khanqah.
For a detailed account of the Saiyyidi Maula affair, vide Professor Shaikh 'Abdur Ramid's excellent monograph on Jalal-ud-din Khilji pp.
Khic;lr Khan, the heir-apparent, was a disciple of Shaikh Nizam-ud-din 'Auliya, and so the Sultan thought that the fillaikh would support his succession.
3 The Sultan's repeated efforts to meddle in the fillaikh's peaceful life at last annoyed him and he sent his disciple Amir Hassan Sijzi, the famous compiler of Fawa'id-ul-Fawiid, to the Sultan's pir, Shaikh ])ia• ud-din Rumi with the message: (View the image of this page) (You should forbid the Sultan against annoying the der• vishes, for his safety in both the worlds depends on his not annoying these people.
2 But as Shaikh Rukn• ud-din was an old friend of fillaikh Nizam-ud-din 'Auliya and considered him to be ' the best man of Delhi,' the Sultan's scheme to use him for that purpose failed.
_ On the first day of the moon when 'ulama, masha'ikh and nobles · assembled in the court to congratulate the Sultan, Shaikh Nizam-ud-din 'Auliya did not go himself but he sent his servant Iqbal as his representa• tive.
Shaikh Nizam-ud-din 'Auliya accepted the gift3 and, as was the practice of his.