The Institutes of Akbar 191.7

191.7

And when the Shaikh, in all his pride and haughtiness, sat upon his masnad (cushion), and influential grandees introduced to him, in his office, scientific or pious men, the Shaikh received them in his filthy way, paid respect to no one, and after much asking, begging, and exaggerating, he allowed, for example, a teacher of the Hidáyah (a book on law) and other college books 100 Bíg’hahs, more or less ; and though such a man might have been for a long time in possession of more extensive lands, the Shaikh took them away. But to men of no renown, to low fellows, even to Hindus, he gave primitive lands as marks of personal favor. Hence science and scientific men fell in estimation. At no time had a Çadr, for so long a time, exercised more tyrannical powers. The fate of Abdunnabí has been related above. Akbar gave him money for the poor of Makkah, and sent him on a pilgrimage. When he came back, he was called to account for the money, was put in prison, and murdered ‘by some scoundrel’ in 992.