The Institutes of Akbar 2.2.8

2.2.8

The hatred of the court party against Shaikh Mubárak especially rose to such a height, that Shaikh ’Abdunnabi and Makhdúm ul-Mulk represented to the emperor that inasmuch as Mubarak also belonged to the Mahdawis and was, therefore, not only himself damned, but led also others into damnation, he deserved to be killed. They even obtained an order to bring him before the emperor. Mubarak wisely fled from Agrah, only leaving behind him some furniture for his enemies to reek their revenge on. Concealing himself for a time, he applied to Shaikh Salim Chishtt of Fathpur Sikri for intercession; but being advised by him to withdraw to Gujarat, he implored the good offices of Akbar’s foster-brother, the generous Khan i A’zam Mirza Kokah, who succeeded in allaying all doubts in the mind of the emperor by dwelling on the poverty of the Shaikh and on the fact that, different from his covetous accusers, he had not cost the state anything by way of freeholds, and thus obtained at least security for him and his family. Mubarak some time afterwards applied indeed for a grant of land for his son Abul Faiz, who had already acquired literary fame, though he was only twenty years old, and waited personally with his son on Shaikh ’Abdunnabi. But the latter, in his theological pride, turned them out his office as men suspected of Mahdawi leanings and Shi’ah tendencies.