The Institutes of Akbar 2.1.4

2.1.4

nor did the years of extraordinary drought which preceded the first year of Akbar’s reign, and the dreadful plague, which in 963 broke out in Agrah and caused a great dispersion among the population, incline him to settle elsewhere. The universality of learning which distinguished Mubárak attracted a large number of disciples, and displayed itself in the education he gave his sons; and the filial piety with which Abul Fazl in numerous passages of his works speaks of his father, and the testimony of hostile writers as Badáoní, leave no doubt that it was Mubárak’s comprehensiveness that laid in Abul Faiz and Abul Fazl the foundation of those cosmopolitan and, to a certain extent, anti-Islamitic views, for which both brothers have been branded by Muhammadan writers as atheists, or as Hindus, or as sunworshippers, and as the chief causes of Akbar’s apostacy from Islám.