The Institutes of Akbar 2.5.1

2.5.1

Shaikh Mubárak, who after the publication of his famous document had all but retired from the world, died in the following year at Láhor, (Sunday, 17th Zí Qa’dah, 1001, or 4th September, 1593). He had reached the age of ninety, and had occupied himself in the last years of his life with the compilation in four volumes of a gigantic commentary to the Qorán, to which he had given the title of Manba’u Nafáis ul ’Uyún. He completed it, in spite of failing eyesight, a short time before his death. The historian Badáoní speaks of him as follows :—