The Institutes of Akbar 135.7.6

135.7.6

With Akbar’s death, the Divine Faith died out. Akbar, solely relying on his influence and example, had established no priesthood, and had appointed no proper person for propagating his faith. If we except the influence which his spirit of toleration exerted, the masses had remained passive. Most of the members, mentioned on p. 209, had died before Akbar; such as were still alive, as Sharif of Amul took again to sophistry, and tried to create sensations under Jahángír. As Jahángír did not trouble himself about any religion, Akbar’s spirit of toleration soon changed to indifference, and gradually died out; when a reaction in favour of bigotry set in under Aurangzeb. But people still talked of the Divine Faith in 1643 or 1648, when the author of the Dabistán collected his notes on Akbar’s religion.