And on the third of the month of Ramazán messengers brought this mournful news to Court. And the Emperor had to consider to whom he should commit Kábul and Ghaznín. At first he wished to confirm the government of that country on the children of Mirza Muḥammad Ḥakím. But when the Amírs represented that the sons of the Mirzá were still of tender age, and unable to discharge the duties of government:—
(P. 347) “Entrust not a hard matter to the young,
For you must not break an anvil with your fist.
Protecting subjects, and commanding an army,
Are not matters of play and joke.”
Consequently the Emperor wrote a farmán in haste, and appointed the Khán Khánán to Gujrát, and sent 'Azud-ud-doulat from the Court to Málwah and Ráisín to look after the affairs of the Dak'hin, and to help Khán-i-Azam and Shiháb-ud-dín Aḥmad Khán, who had been ordered to conquer the Dak'hin. Then he set off in person on the 10th of the month for the Panjáb, and saw the new moon of Shawwál in Dihlí. When at the station of Pánípat he gave a jágír in the environs of Lak'hnou to Mír Abu-l-Ghais of Bokhára, and dismissed him thither. On the 19th of this month he arrived at the river Satlaj. And in those days, in the course of a week more or less, Shaikh Jamál Bakhtiyár, and Khwájah Isma'íl, grandson of Shaikh Islám, who was possessed of the most perfect personal beauty, by reason of perpetual wine drinking and continual debauchery, passed from this transitory world to the eternal habitation: the one at Lodhiyánah, and the other at T'hánésar: and this enigma was invented to give the date:—
Hemistich. The beautiful Rose left the Garden of the World.”*
And at 3 cosses from Siálkóṭ Mullá Iláhdád Amrohah,* who had received a wound in his breast, the fever of which had reached his heart, took a purgative from Ḥakím Ḥasan, and died in the course of the day. Death is the awakening [from the drunkenness of life]. The draught [of Death] to him was a good friend (God have mercy on him!):—
“O heart who told you: Cling to earth?
Put this tender soul of yours into security.
Consider, since you came, how many are gone,
At last you are alone, take warning from their going.”
And the Emperor sent Çádiq Khán from the confines of Láhór to the government of Bakkar. And on (P. 348) 16th of Zi-qa'dah* he encamped on the banks of the river Chanáb. At this station Shaikh 'Abd-ur-raḥím of Lak'hnou, a friend of Mír Abu-l-Ghais and Shaikh Muḥammad Bokhárá (who had come from the Khán-i-Zamán to the Court, and had been raised to the rank of Amír, and received as jágír the pargannah of Pathán in the confines of the mountains, and at this time had developed a temporary insanity) struck himself with a dagger in the tent of Ḥakím Abu-l-Fatḥ. The Emperor bound up his wound with his own hand, and gave orders that he should be taken care of at Siálkoṭ. After a time he recovered, but by reason of his insanity his affairs slipped from his grasp, and now as ever [the verse is true]:—
“A bad habit, that has once fixed itself in the temperament,
Will never leave you till the hour of death.”
And on the 27th of this month of this month he crossed the river
Behat.*
At this stage Muḥammad 'Alí the treasurer, who had been
appointed to Kábul, represented, that after the death of Mírzá Mu-
On the fifth of the month Zi-ḥajjah*
Ráwal Pindí, which is a town
between Atak Banáras and Rohtás, became the Emperor's halting-
And in these days he appointed Isma'íl Qulí (P. 349) Khán, and Ráí Singh Darbárí, against the Balúchís; and Zín Khán Kokah he appointed with a well-appointed army against the Afgháns of Sawad and Bijor.