[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 135.2.4 # The Institutes of Akbar 135.2.4 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 135.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [135.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2.4) Soon after the Shaikh was sent into exile to Bhakkar, together with other faqírs, as His Majesty was jealous of his triumph. A large number of Shaikhs and Faqírs were also sent to other places, mostly to Qandahár, where they were exchanged for horses. About the same time, the emperor captured a sect consisting of Shaikhs and disciples, and known under the name of Iláhís. They professed all sorts of nonsense, and practised deceits. His Majesty asked them whether they repented of their vanities. They replied, ‘Repentance is our Maid.’ And so they had invented similar names for the laws and religious commands of the Islam, and for the fast. At the command of His Majesty, they were sent to Bhakkar and Qandahár, and were given to merchants in exchange for Turkish colts.” “His Majesty was now (990) convinced that the Millennium of the Islámitic dispensation was drawing near. No obstacle, therefore, remained to promulgating the designs which he had planned in secret. The Shaikhs and ’Ulamas who, on account of their obstinacy and pride, had to be entirely discarded, were gone, and His Majesty was free to disprove the orders and principles of the Islam, and to ruin the faith of the nation by making new and absurd regulations. The first order which was passed was, that the coinage should shew the era of the Millennium, and that a history of the one thousand years should be written, but commencing from the death of the prophet. - [Previous: 135.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2.3) - [Next: 135.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2.5) - [Up: 135.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.2.4) · Pramāṇa