You have revived the name of Timur by oppressing the poor with the jizya.
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Aurangzeb
Sixth Mughal emperor (1618-1707), known by the title Alamgir, "World-Seizer." In a 49-year reign he expanded the empire to its greatest territorial extent, codifying Islamic law in the Fatawa-i Alamgiri and restoring the jizya poll-tax on non-Muslims that Akbar had abolished a century earlier. A scholar-soldier who could recite the Quran from memory, he lived austerely in camp, sewing prayer caps and copying scripture to fund his own daily expenses. His twenty-six-year Deccan war ultimately drained the treasury and seeded the empire's collapse, and his religious policies remain a flashpoint between Indian and Pakistani historiography three centuries on.
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Aurangzeb's Other Quotes
I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
If the fight had ended fatally for me it would not have been a matter of shame. Death drops the curtain even on emperors; it is no dishonor.
King Aurangzib 'Alamgir stamped coins, in the world, like the bright full moon.
In all lands under Mughal control, never again should the officials allow a woman to be burnt.
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