Muntakhab al-tawarikh 136.2

136.2

Thus the hereditary trusteeship of the shrine which had come down to him through so many years was transferred to others. The Shaikh, who was a man of great estate, lived in that province like a king, and the Emperor’s regal jealousy both on this account and on account of certain other events which happened could not endure the Shaikh’s position, so he ordered him to leave India and to journey to Makkah, and the Shaikh accordingly took formal leave of his Majesty during the march to Banswala, and, after successfully performing the pilgrimage to Makkah, returned. Having accomplished his journey to the Hijaz, he paid his respects at Court, on his return on the very day on which the Emperor had marched from Fathpur towards Kabul against Muhammad Hakim Mirza, but he would not conform to the ceremonies which have in these days been established by those who have accepted a new faith and have been recently converted to Islam, now followers of a new order of things. The Emperor after studying the page of the Shaikh's life and the lines of his forehead read there the signs of disaffection to himself, and commanded that the Shaikh should be imprisoned in the fortress of Bakkar. There he spent some years and at last, in the year H. 1002 (A.D.