At this auspicious epoch, which was the birthday of felicity and dominion, and the testing-time of loyalty and devotion's coinage, S.M. Sulaimān, son of Khān Mīrzā the son of Sulān Maḥmūd, the son of Sulan Abū S'aīd was peaceably in charge of* the territory of Badakhshān, while the country (wīlāyat) of Kabul, Ghaznīn and the other districts from the Hindu Koh to the river Indus, commonly known as the Nīlāb, were administered by the wisdom and skill of Mun'im Khān who was distinguished among the servants of the ever­lasting dominion for equity and justice. Through his excellent service, Muḥammad Ḥakīm and the chaste ladies lived in that country in the enjoyment of repose. Qandahār and its appurtenances, which were the jāgīr of Bairām Khān were in charge of Shāh Muḥammad of Qilāt, who upreared the banner of courage and daring and made those lands a station of peace, and kept them aloof from strife and misfortune. The administrators of Delhi, the capital of the country, have already been mentioned. Agra, the capital of the Caliphate, and the adjoining districts, flourished under Iskandar Khān Uzbeg; Sambal was in charge of 'Alī Qulī Shaibānī; Sarkār Kālpī was under 'Abdullah Khān Uzbeg; while the servants of Tardī Beg Khān gave security to Mewāt;* Qīya Khān was in Kol Jalālī (Aligarh), and Ḥaidar Muḥammad Khān in Bīāna. Fresh rescripts of favour were issued to all the servants of the lofty Court, stating that “we have left all in possession of their estates as heretofore, so that the sincerity and good service of every one may be brought to light; hereafter they shall be advanced to high degrees and positions in accordance with the lofty intelligence of the Shāhinshāh.” For the present time the world-adorning judgment of H.M. the Shāhinshāh was insisting upon his remaining for some days under the veil of con­cealment, so that his world-illuminating beauty might be seen by no one but himself. Either the cause of this far-seeing and right-choos­ing design was that, by being in the guise of indifference to the world, he might make trial of men and fix in the antechamber of his holy mind the most accurate estimation of each individual; or it was the narrow capacity of those men, and their not possessing the power to appreciate his perfections, which compelled him for the sake of com­ing humanity to adopt this line of conduct; or it was that black-hearted and crafty foes might engage in their evil acts, free from any apprehensions of the eminence of the holy elements; or it was because the far-seeing glance of this bezel of the signet-ring of the Caliphate had fallen upon the unending world of reality, and so did not regard this dustbin (khāqdān) of an earth; or it was for some other design which the acute and discerning may one* day discover. (Be that as it may). This exoteric and esoteric king made* over all affairs of state and finance to Bairām Khān, and busied himself in things which acted as complete veils of his majesty, and were impenetrable by the superficial of this age.