The Institutes of Akbar 132.1.6

132.1.6

Other tricks also, in comparison with which the tricks of the children of Moses are nothing, and rumours of his meanness and shabbiness, his open cheating and worldliness, and his cruelties said to have been practised on the Shaikhs and the poor of the whole country, but especially on the Aimadárs and other deserving people of the Panjáb,—all came up, one story after the other. His motives, ‘which shall be revealed on the day of resurrection’ (Qor. LXXXVI, 9), were disclosed; all sorts of stories, calculated to ruin his character and to vilify him, were got up, till it was resolved to force him to go to Makkah. But when people asked him whether pilgrimage was a duty for a man in his circumstances, he said No; for Shaikh ’Abdunnabí had risen to power, whilst the star of the Mauláná was fast sinking. But a heavier blow was to fall on the ’Ulamás. [Bad. II, p. 207.]