When the camp reached Delhi M. Mīrak Raẓavī, who in Lahore had been made over to Jān Bāqī Khān, and who was waiting for his opportunity, fled from prison. Jān Bāqī hastened after him, and as he did not catch him he was afraid to come to court. H.M. the Shāhinshāh visited the shrines of the saints and sought for inspira­tion. He also distributed abundant alms among the devotees of those places. Tātār Khān, who was the governor of the city, repre­sented that Muḥammad Amīn Diwāna, who had fled from Lahore, had come to the town of Bhojpūr, and that Shihābu-d-din Khān Turkamān, who was the jāgīrdār thereof, had kept him concealed for some days in his house and then supplied him with a horse and money and sent him to the rebels. On hearing this terrible news the wrath of the Shāhinshāh, which never blazes forth without just cause, grew high, and he issued orders to Shāh Fakhiru-d-dīn Mash­hadī to bring the wretch to court. Next day he marched on and, when he came to Palwal,* Shāh Fakhiru-d-dīn* did homage and pro­duced the inauspicious one. He was made over to Ḥasan Caghatāī and executed at that place.

When the expectants in Agra heard the sound of the approach of the sublime cortège the Khān-Khānān and a number of loyalists went out to welcome H.M. and were exalted by doing homage. The Khān-Khanān reported the condition of the country and read a list of the crimes of Ālī Qulī Khān and Bahādur Khān, and of the other rebels who had raised their heads anew. How can I say that clemency and advice are profitable to one who is innately bad? They do harm, for such an one regards conciliation and monition as weakness and increases in his sedition. Accordingly eminent sages have seen no remedy for the inwardly bad except prison and stripes. And when even this remedy does not act upon the wicked, it is kindness to mankind and indeed to themselves to send them to the abode of annihilation. Those responsible for the affairs of the kingdom and the intimates of H.M. had not arrived at an understanding of this mystery and had on the first occasion not permitted the Khedive of the Age to make an end of those wretches. They brought the mind of H.M. over to their view, and the raising of the veil remained in abeyance. When Ālī Qulī Khān and the other rebels heard that H.M. had marched to extinguish the flames of the sedition of Muḥammad Ḥakīm Mīrzā they in their foolish thoughts considered this to be their opportunity and indulged in seditious imaginings. Ālī Qulī Khān went from Jaunpūr to the town of Sarharpūr which was the jāgīr of Ibrāhīm Khān, and Iskandar Khān came out of the city of Oude (Ajūdhya) to join this rebel tyrant. All the sedition-mongers assembled in that town and agreed that Ālī Qulī Khān should, with his forces, proceed by the way of Lucknow and take pos­session of the whole country to the bank of the Ganges; that Bahā­dur Khān should proceed to Karra and Manikpūr against Āṣaf Khān and Majnūn Khān; and that Iskandar Khān and Ibrāhīm Khān should take possession of the Sirkār of Oude and its neighbourhood. After making this evil compact they separated. Ālī Qulī Khān pro­ceeded to Sarkār Qanauj. As the fief-holders in that part of the country had no leader who could cope with him, they went off to Qanauj. When Ālī Qulī Khān reached Qanauj, M. Yūsuf Khān, who was the fief-holder thereof, took refuge in the fort of Shergarha. The people dispersed, and petitions of the loyalists arrived one after the other at court. Fortune stepped out to do her work.