The Institutes of Akbar 2.1.3

2.1.3

He soon felt the wish and the necessity to complete his education and visit the great teachers of other parts; but love to his mother kept him in his native town, where he continued his studies, guided by the teachings of the great saint Khwájah Ahrár, to which his attention had been directed. However, when his mother died, and when about the same time the Maldeo disturbances broke out, Mubárak carried out his wish, and went to Ahmadabad in Gujarat, either attracted by the fame of the town itself, or by that of the shrine of his countryman Ahmad of Khattú. In Ahmadabad, he found a second father in the learned Shaikh Abul Fazl, a khatib, or preacher, from Kázarún in Persia, and made the acquaintance of several men of reputation, as Shaikh ’Umar of Tattah and Shaikh Yusuf. After a stay of several years, he returned to Hindustan, and settled, on the 6th Muharram, 950, on the left bank of the Jamuná, opposite Agrah, near the Chárbágh Villa, which Babar had built, and in the neighbourhood of the saintly Mir Rafi’uddin Safawi of Inju (Shíráz), among whose disciples Mubarak took a distinguished place. It was here that Mubarak’s two eldest sons, Shaikh Abul Faiz, and four years later, Shaikh Abul-Fazl, were born. Mubárak had now reached the age of fifty, and resolved to remain at Agrah, the capital of the empire;