When the minds of the imperial servants were at rest about the business of M. Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain, they addressed themselves to the taking of the fort of Jodhpūr, which was the strongest fort in that country. Let it not be concealed that this fort was the capi­tal of Rai Māldeo, who was one of the great Rajahs of India, both in rank and position, and for the number of his servants, and the extent of his territories. When he departed from the fortress of life, his younger son Candar Sen succeeded him and held this fort. The officers went to besiege it, and Rām Rai, the elder son of Rai Māldeo, came and joined the army of fortune, and after that he was exalted by saluting the sublime threshold, which is the kissing-spot of the exalted ones of the horizons. M'uīnu-d-dīn Aḥmad Khān Farankhūdī and Moaffār Moghol and a number of others were sent to assist Ḥusain Qulī Khān. By the Divine aid the fort was soon conquered.

One of the occurrences was the promotion of Khwāja Moaffar 'Alī Tarbatī* to the rank of Khān, and the bestowal on him of the robe of the Viziership. The details of this are, that when the affairs of the Sultanate were put in order by the auspicious fortune, admirable attention, etc., of H.M. the Shāhīnshah, and the most impor­tant matters had been arranged, in spite of the perfect understand­ing of the spirit of the age, and the aggregation of qualities tempo­ral and spiritual, and the unflagging engagement in external and internal matters, and the unnecessariness of Vizier or vakīl, yet, for the sake of maintaining the screen and of following the custom of predecessors, which is the eye-salve of the commonalty, and also for the sake of farsightedness and of abundant caution, the world-con­quering mind determined that the masnad of dīwanship should be graced by the presence of a man who was loyal, fond of service, and acquainted with business, so that the holy personality might remain under the veil of inattention, which is the best means of testing men, and that political and financial affairs and the details of speech and action might be conducted in the best method, and that the gardens of the imperial domains might be watered by the tricklings from his efficacious pen. For this purpose the attention of H.M. the Shāhinshāh was drawn in the beginning of this year to Khwājah Moaffar Ālī of Tarbat, and he was exalted by being appointed to this service. The cushion of the dīwan was adorned by him, and he received the title of Mozaffar Khān. He returned thanks for this great favour, and displayed his abilities in the execution of his duties. He managed in a proper manner the operations of the Treasury, which is the capital stock of sovereignty, the improvement of the condition of the peasantry, and the control of the army (according to what was hidden in the breast of H.M.). From his good service in the affairs of the Viziership, he rose to be an Amīr. He had abun­dant courage as well as intelligence, and was master both of the sword and the pen. The Khwājah was a servant of Bairām Khān. At the time of the latter's alienation, Dervash Uzbeg arrested the Khwājah and sent him to the Court. Though short-sighted men urged that he should be put to death, H.M., who is a judge of the coin of humanity, perceived the Khwājah's aptitude for business, and granted him his life. For some time he was collector of the pargana Parsarūr,* and from his success therein he was made dīwān-i-bīyūtāt. Thereafter he was raised to the lofty office above mentioned. I laud the discrimination of the farseeing mineralogist who brings out rubies and cornelians from among dust, and makes them the orna­ments of dominion's throne.