[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 2.5.4 # The Institutes of Akbar 2.5.4 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 2.5.4 - **Language:** English ### [2.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5.4) I have known no man of more comprehensive learning; but alas! under the mantle of the dervish there was such a wicked love of worldly preferment, that he left no tittle of our religion in peace. When I was young, I studied at Agrah for several years in his company. He is indeed a man of merit; but he committed worldly and irreligious deeds, plunged into lust of possession and rank, was timeserving, practised deceit and falsehood, and went so far in twisting religious truth, that nothing of his former merit remains. “Say, either I am in the correct path or in clear error, or you” \[Qoran, xxxiv, 23\]. Further, it is a common saying that the son brings the curse on the head of his father; hence people have gone beyond Yazid and say, ‘Curse on Yazid, and on his father, too.’ Two years after Shaikh Mubárak’s death, Abul Fazl also lost his brother Faizi, who died at the age of fifty after an illness of six months on the 10th Safar, 1004 (5th October, 1595). When in his last moments, Akbar visited him at midnight, and seeing that he could no longer speak, he gently raised his head and said to him, “Shaikh Jio, I have brought Hakim ’Ali with me, will you not speak to me?” But getting no reply, the emperor in his grief threw his turban to the ground, and wept loud; and after trying to console Abul Fazl, he went away. - [Previous: 2.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5.3) - [Next: 2.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5.5) - [Up: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.2.5.4) · Pramāṇa