[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) › 135.3.7 # The Institutes of Akbar 135.3.7 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 135.3.7 - **Language:** English ### [135.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.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.’ - [Previous: 135.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.3.6) - [Next: 135.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.4.1) - [Up: 135.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.135.3.7) · Pramāṇa