Muntakhab al-tawarikh 236.3

236.3

The Khan, when the Emperor was marching against Hakim Mirza in A.H. 989 (A.D. 1581), remained behind and returned from the Panjab to his own jagir, a line of conduct which excited suspicion against him, so that after the Emperor’s return from this expedition he was summoned to Fathpur, there to be called to account for his monetary transactions and his writings, to be reprimanded, and deprived of his title. In this manner, he was persecuted for some years. Those who are qualified to dis criminate attribute his ruin to the impropriety of which he was guilty in lampooning the officials in the imperial city of Dihli, wherein he was actuated solely by the enmity which he bore to Tatar Khan. The satire which he wrote he chose to attribute to Qasim-i-Kahi, publishing it as the work of that poet. The grounds upon which his satire was based will be best defined by quoting from the effusion. “Miyan Jamal Khan is the mufti of Dihli, But he never yet delivered one of his foolish judgments gratis; He is the Governor of the city under Tatar Khan, And has just such another little donkey’s face as his master’s. Shaikh Hasan the little decree-writer with his poisoned pen Spreads on all sides false news and slanderous whispers. At the very time of prayer he performs, in a perfunctory manner, his ceremonial ablutions When the reader has already ascended the pulpit, It is he, it is he, it is he that oppresses the city, A vain babbler, with his harlots”