As the rainy season was near at hand, H.M., with a view to the repose and comfort of his people, ordered a return, and made the town of Jālandhar his camping ground. The rose-garden of the world was refreshed by justice, and for nearly five months the sublime army lived in enjoyment in that pleasant spot. The ambassadors of 'Abdu-r-rashīd Khān the ruler of Kāshghar came and did homage. They presented valuable gifts and received favours from the shadow of God.

The brief account of this is as follows:—

The brief account of this is as follows:—

'Abdu-r-rashīd Khān always kept up the ties of relationship, and sought a protection for himself by laying the foundation of accord with the noble family. H.M. Jahānbānī Jinnat Āshiyānī also always treated him with kindness and urbanity. One instance of this was that at the time the expedition to India was in his lofty contempla­tion he had sent Khwāja 'Abdu-l-Bārī, who was of the noble line of Naqshbandī Khwājahs, to Kāshghar. He now returned, and was honoured by saluting the threshold of fortune. The ruler of Kāsh­ghar sent M. Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain along with him, both to offer condolences (for Humāyūn's death) and to express felicitations. Khwāja 'Abdu-l-Barī is son of Khwāja 'Abdu-l-Khāfī, son of K. 'Abdu-l-Hādī, son of Khwājagān Khwāja, own son of K. Aḥrār,* —may his grave be holy! M. Sharafu-d-dīn was son of K. Mu'in, son of K. Khāwand Maḥmūd, younger brother of K. 'Abdu-l-Hādī, son of Khwāja­gān Khwāja. M. Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain came on account of these con­nections along with K. 'Abdu-l-Bārī and entered H.M.'s service. The Mīrzā was also of high family on the mother's side, for his mother was Kīcak Begum, daughter of Mir 'Alā-al-Mulk of Tarmiẕ, and of Fakhr Jahān Begum daughter of H.M. Khāqān Saīd Sulān Alī S'aīd M. He* soon attained high rank, and became an Amīr-al-Umrā, for he added good service to his high rank, and, by passing off his outward show as a representation of his inner nature, made pretensions to the exalted dignity of sincerity.

This is a Court where people turn a grain of sincerity into a world. Let no wrong thought prove a stumblingblock to you (O reader), and do not say that to show this man (Sharafu-d-dīn) favour above his rank was to transgress the laws of justice. The place of justice is one thing, and the station of benevolence is another, though in matters of this kind an increase of trust on the part of this spiri­tual and temporal Lord (Akbar) is a means of applying a test, and of ascertaining character, by administration of the world's wine which o'erthrows the unmanly and sets up the virile. Extraneous* nobility is liable to hundreds of molestations, and granting that these moles­tations (i.e., temptations) be avoided, outward associations and super­ficial relationships do not result in the attainment of the desired object. Inward links and intrinsic purity of soul are required in order that a true test may be applied by the touchstone of sincerity. How many members of the world's noble families come to the sublime court and make pretensions to loyalty and sincerity! But as the dust of the dominion-guarding threshold is a touchstone for human gems, their merits and demerits are soon revealed, and meet with their fit­ting recompense. Those who were pure within, and were endowed with real nobility, rose in rank day by day, and those who made an embroidered robe of outward purity the veil of inward nastiness, and sold barley while passing it off as wheat, were in the end involved in loss and ignominy and became disgraced for ever and ever. Accord­ingly, the case of M. Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain, and of hundreds like him, has been a warning to the wise and the reflecting. The relation of a small portion of the history of each in its proper place will open the path of auspiciousness to the generality of mankind.

During the time that the camp was at Jālandhar* Kamāl Khān Gakhar, son of Sulān Sārang, younger brother of Sulān Adam, warmly followed up the old loyalty, and attained the blessing of kissing the threshold. He became the recipient of princely favours, and was included in the list of officers. He did good service in the war with Hēmū and at Mānkot, etc., and became the object of special attentions from H.M. the Shāhinshāh.