98 But King Muhammad Shah could not grant her that wish without seeking permission from the king of Portugal. Therefore, he wrote to him asking for his permission to remove Rais Nuruddin from his post. The request was refused and instructions came that the commander of the fortress was to reconcile king Muhammad Shah with the wazir of Hormuz, Rais Nuruddin. * Then, everybody got too busy with the war with Persia as the Persian forces on 22nd September 1614, occupied the Gamrun fortress on the coast opposite Hormuz Island. In spite of the fact that this was followed by peace between the Portuguese and the Persians, the war between Bibi Fatima and her husband, the king, on one side and Rais Nuruddin, the wazir, and his two spinster sisters, on the other, was still ongoing. This conflict was instigated by the fact that Bibi Fatima used to sit in hermajliswith her mother’s crown on her head; next to her, Latifa, her daughter,
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