The head must bend and the neck obey
For whatever a just prince does is right.

The Khān-Khānān, whose decline was near at hand, or rather who was going headlong into the dark night of decline, did not receive instruction from these admonitory words which were capable of constituting an auspicious code. Shall I say that they increased his disaffection? But he who knows, knows that he by his own endeavours hastened down the precipice of dishonour. In short, he went on from the pargana of Bikānīr towards the Panjab. When he came near the fort of Tabarhinda,* which was in the fief of Sher* Muḥammad Dīwāna, he left his son 'Abdur Raḥīm and the rest of his family and his baggage in the fort with Sher Muḥammad, who was one of his special intimates, and passed on. Sher* Muḥammad paid more regard to his real benefactor and sepa­rated from him. He took possession of all the goods and chattels that were left in Tabarhinda* and took Bairām's family to the Court. Darvesh Muḥammad* Uzbeg imprisoned Muaffar 'Ali, who had come to fetch him, and sent him to Court, and he himself bound on the girdle of loyalty. He recognised his own liege lord and withdrew from his fictitious benefactor. When he (Bairām ?) came near Thārah* M. 'Abdulla Moghal put it in a state of defence and prepared for battle. Walī Beg came to Thārah and was defeated. Bravo! Whoever tries to extinguish a lamp lighted by God flings into the fire the harvest of his fortune and felicity! As it was the time of Bairām Khān's fall, whatever he thought to be to his advantage resulted in loss. And as self-interest is a veil over the eye of counsel, he did not know what was his own good, and regarding causes of awaken­ing as causes of somnolence, he went to the pargana of Jālandhar.