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• When in silks you came and dazzled Me with the beauty of your Spring, You brought a flower to bloom – Love within my being. You lived with me, breath of my breath, Being in my being, nor left my side; But now the wheel of Time has turned And you are gone – no joys abide. You pressed your lips upon my lips, Your heart upon my beating heart, And I ha...
• two hundred Muslims turned up at the Palace demanding to be allowed to slaughter cows - holy to Hindus - at ‘Id, Zafar told them in a ‘decided and angry tone that the religion of the Musalmen did not depend upon the sacrifice of cows’.92
• Zafar banned the butchery of cows, forbade the eating of beef and authorised for anyone found killing a cow the terrible punishment of being blown from a cannon. The police reacted immediately, even going so far as to arrest any kebab-wallah who was found grilling beef kebabs.