Muntakhab al-tawarikh 136.4

136.4

He desires no madad-i-ma‘ash from you.” The Emperor would not accede to her request, and said, “Mother, he will start business afresh in the place to which he is now going, and people will present to him alms, presents, and complimentary gifts in plenty. He leads a number of men astray. In fine, let him summon his mother hither.” This treatment of his mother was much bitterer to the Shaikh than was the mere going to Bakkar. On the night on which the Sadr-i-Jahan summoned the compiler of these historical selections to the Imperial presence in connection with the Shaikh’s resignation of his trusteeship of the shrine in Ajmer, as has already been mentioned, the Emperor was perturbed in respect of that case, which he had himself brought forward, and refused to ratify the decree (with regard to the resignation), and retained the Shaikh in his service. He said to the Sadr-i-Jahan, “Where is that simple-hearted old man?” (meaning Shaikh Husain). I reminded him that he was in Lahor, and urged the Sadr-i-Jahan, since I myself was unworthy to hold such a blessed position, to have him appointed as the trustee of the shrine in that protected city, and so restore to him his just due. But since it is not in the nature of natives of India to work in the interests of their own brethren, or to trust in another, the efforts of the Sadr-i Jahan availed neither in my own unfortunate wretch that I am nor in the case of Shaikh Husain.