The Institutes of Akbar 191.4

191.4

The religious views of the emperor (vide p. 167), and the hatred which he shewed to the ’Ulamá, most of whom held lands, furnished him with a personal, and therefore stronger, reason to resume their grants, and drive them away to Bhakkar in Sind, or to Bengal, the climate of which, in those days, was as notorious as, in later days, that of Gombroon. After the fall of ’Abdunnabi—a man whom Akbar used once to honor by holding the slippers before his feet,—Sultán Khwájah, a member of the Divine Faith, (vide p. 204) was appointed as Çadr; and the Çadrs after him were so limited in conferring lands independently of Akbar, and had so few grants to look after, as to tempt Badáoní to indulge in sarcastical remarks. The following were Akbar’s Çadrs:— 1. Shaikh Gadáí, a Shí’ah, appointed at the recommendation of Bairám Khán, till 968. 2. Khwájah Muḥammad Çáliḥ, till 971. 3. Shaikh ’Abdunnabí, till 986. 4. Sulṭán Khwájah, till his death in 993. 5. Mír Fatḥullah of Shíráz, till 997. 6. Çadr Jahán, whose name coincides with the title of his office. Abulfazl also mentions a Çadr Mauláná ’Abdul Báqí; but I do not know when he held office. I extract a few short passages from Badáoní.