It has already been narrated how M. Sulaimān disposed of the wicked and ill-fated Abūl-m'aalī, and how he left Badakhshīs in Kabul. He did not appreciate the rights of the sublime family, and did the work of an enemy under the garb of a friend. He was continually trying to get possession of Kabul, and to keep M. Ḥakīm in one of the districts of Badakhshān. Though the loyal Kabulis understood in some measure M. Sulaimān's designs yet, as the pro­ceeding was a strange one, they did not feel quite certain about the matter. At last he was not contented with the number of men he had already sent and took to sending more. One time, he sent 'Abdu-r-raḥman Beg, the son of Mīr Tolak Qadīmī with a force, and on another occasion he sent Tangri Bardī Qūshbegī with troops. The suspicions of the Kabulis were confirmed, and they took mea­sures to remedy affairs. Those who took the chief part in this were Khwāja Ḥasan Naqshbandī, Bāqī Qāqshāl, Siyūndak, 'Alī Muḥam­mad Asp, Banda 'Alī Maidānī with other Maidānīans and Khwāja Khiẓrīyāns, Yār Muḥammad Ākhūnd, Fīrūz and Khalīfa 'Abdullah. They sent information of the facts to M. Ḥakīm, who had arrived at years of discretion, and he, who had been put into straits by the parsimony and bad behaviour of the Badakhshīs, approved of their solicitude, and set about expelling the Badakhshis. He took away the territory of Ghaznīn from Qarā Yatīm and the son of Ḥusain Kabulī, to whom it had been given by M. Sulaimān, and bestowed it on Qāsim Beg Parwancī. Bangash he took from Murād Khwāja and gave it to his own followers. Jalālābād and its territory up to the Indus, which M. Sulaimān had given to Qāẓī Khān, S'aīd K. Mubā­riz K. and Bahāū-d-dīn K. he made his own exchequer-lands. By degrees he loosed the noose of oppression which the Badakhshīs had cast over Kabul, and expelled all of them from the country. The Badakhshīs were put down and went off to M. Sulaimān. Ghāzī K. met in the passes of the Hindū Koh M. Sulaiman, who was marching to Kabul to set matters right, and he told him all that had occurred. Thereupon he hastened towards Kabul. When M. Ḥakīm received the news of his approach, he made over the citadel to Bāqī Qāqshāl and a number of other trusty men and went off himself with a body of loyal followers towards Jalālābād and Peshawar. When M. Sulai­mān came to the river Bārān, he halted there for some days in order to rest his men. As he knew that the Mīrzā was going towards Jalālābād, he put off the capture of Kabul to another season, and moved on to Jalālābād from Deh-Minār with the intention of making M. Ḥakīm a prisoner. When the latter arrived at Daka* an erro­neous report was received that M. Sulaiman was not following him, and so M. Ḥakīm turned round and proceeded to Koh-i-Barān.*

The daughter of M. Sulaiman, who from want of sense had remained in Jalālābad, now repented and joined M. Ḥakīm (her husband) in the borders of Basāwal,* and apologised for her offence. At this same stage it became certain that M. Sulaimān was marching in that direction, and that the former report was wrong. The Mirza proceeded with all haste to Gharībkhāna,* and from there to 'Alī Masjid, and from there to Peshawar, where he halted near Qabīla-i-Ḥabīb.* On the same day M. Sulaimān's envoy arrived there with the idea that he might succeed in laying a snare for him. The Mīrzā after a brief interview(?) (sir-i-su wāri) dismissed him, and sent Khwāja Ḥasan to M. Sulaimān, while he himself proceeded towards the Indus. Just then Khāki Gallabān (shepherd), who had remained behind to get correct information, came and reported that M. Sulaimān had arrived at Jalālābad, and that he had left Ḥaram Begam there with a body of troops and was coming on. M. Ḥakīm quickly crossed the Indus, and sent Ghālib Beg and ūfān Aujī with a humble petition to the Shāhinshāh's world-protecting court. He described his wretched circumstances, and begged for assistance.

He himself halted on the bank of the Sind Sāgar.* As at that time the government of the province of the Panjab was in the hands of Mīr Muḥammad Khān, the elder brother of the Ataga K., the Mīrzā sent his Diwān Khwāja Beg Maḥmūd, and Maqṣūd Jauharī to him and begged for help. Mīr Muḥammad K. sent Qāẓī 'Imād with presents and an encouraging message. The Panjab officers also sent presents suitable to their rank. When M. Sulaimān heard that M. Muḥammad Hakīm had crossed the Indus, he became hopeless and returned from Peshawar. He proceeded towards Jalālābād by the Karappah* route, and on the way had fights with the Shinwāri Afghans. Many of the Badakhshīs were killed, and some goods belonging to the camp-market were plundered. Hārūn Shinwāri, who was the head of the tribe, was killed here. M. Sulaimān left Qambai and a body of troops in Jalālābād, and proceeded to Kabul which he set himself to besiege. The garrison were on the alert and took measures to strengthen the fort. At the time when Nagarcain was by the advent of H.M. the Shāhinshāh made the cynosure of the seven climes, M. Ḥakīm's ambassadors arrived and were through the instrumentality of the courtiers exalted by doing homage. They conveyed the petition of the Mīrzā to the royal hearing. This was favourably received, and as the cause of the Mīrzā's trouble was his not having a prudent and well-wishing guardian, H.M. the Shāh­inshāh in his abundant wisdom took thought about a guardian and chose for this high post Qubu-d dīn Khān, who was distinguished for his prudence, ability and trustworthiness. An order was also issued that the cream of the Panjab troops should, under the generalship of Mir Muḥammad Khān, join the Mīrzā and convey him to Kabul and seat him firmly on the masnad there. After doing so, Qubu-d-dīn K. was to remain in Kabul while the officers should return to their fiefs. An order was issued to Mir Muḥammad K., and to the great officers such as Muḥammad K. and Qulī K. Birlās, the Governor of Multan, Qubu-d-din K., Mahdī Qāsim K., Ḥasan Ṣūfī Sulṭān, Jān Muḥammad Bahsūdī, Kamāl K. Gakhar, Fāẓil Muḥammad, Qulī K., and to the headmen of the country that they should march quickly and join the Mīrzā on the bank of the Indus, and proceed with him against M. Sulaimān and put a stop to his molestation of Kabul. H.M. also sent a large sum of money from the royal trea­sury, together with comforts and luxuries along with the ambassadors.

When the orders reached the officers, they bound the girdles of obedience on the waists of loyalty and went off with the army to serve the Mīrzā. Qubu-d-dīn, Kamāl K., Fāẓil Muḥammad Qulī K., and a body of troops joined the Mīrzā before the others. By the reception of the royal favours and by the royal graciousness, the Mirza's position acquired fresh glory. They crossed at the ferry of Atak-Benares* and proceeded towards Kabul. Mir Muḥammad K. and the other officers joined the Mīrzā with proper equipments near Peshawar. Each officer offered presents suitable to his rank. By the lights of the royal favour which shone upon the cheek of the Mīrza's circumstances, his officers assumed a splendour such as he had never imagined or dreamed of, and he marched on to Kabul with high hopes and right intentions. They did not draw rein till they reached Jalālābād.

As M. Sulaimān had made over Jalālābād to one of his men named Qambar, Mir Muḥammad K. began by sending Sāqī Tarnābī and 'Aārif Beg to advise him. He from ill-fatedness withdrew his neck from the collar of obedience. As that moribund was in his igno­rance not merciful to his own life, the army set about capturing the fort. The fortress-taking heroes girded up their loins for the capture, and by the strength of their arms easily untied the difficult knot. They mounted with the foot of courage the steps of fortress-capture, and set up lofty scaling-ladders. They planted them against the wall of the fort, and essayed to enter. Though the Badakhshīs opposed them to the utmost of their power, and neglected no point of defence, and assailed the attacking party with arrows and bullets, etc., and threw the dust and ashes of opposition on the heads of the climbers to victory's summit, yet no dust remained on the mirror-hearts of these gallant men. And if occasionally some climber were wounded and thrown down, they had not* so little a desire to capture the fort as that they should become apprehensive on seeing him, and should refrain from going on. On the contrary their courage increased, and they put their feet on his head and ran upwards. By the good fortune of the Shāhinshāh they took the fort in the space of an astronomical hour and put to the sword Qambar Ali and his 300 comrades. They let go two of them in order that they might impress upon M. Sulaimān what they had seen of the fate of Qambar and all his comrades.