The Institutes of Akbar 135.3.7

135.3.7

and His Majesty saw in the discomfiture of one party a proof for his own infallibility, entirely forgetful of the proverb, ‘Who slanders others, slanders himself.’* * * The ignorant vulgar had nothing on their tongues but ‘Alláhu Akbar,’ and they looked upon repeating this phrase, which created so much commotion, as a daily religious exercise. Mullá Sherí, at this time, composed a qit’ah of ten verses, in which the following occur:— It is madness to believe with the fool that love towards our prophet Will ever vanish from the earth. I smile, if I think that the following verse, in all its silliness, Will be repeated at the feast of the rich, and as a prayer by the poor: ‘This year the emperor has claimed prophetship, Next year, if God will, he will be God.’