Muntakhab al-tawarikh 305.3

305.3

Ghubārī departed from this world, very unwillingly, in a.h. 1000 (a.d. 1591-92), and the chronogram found for his death consisted of the words, “ Qasim ‘Alī Khan the fool.” Accord- ‘To spite you I will sit in the shop which I have in Agra, selling fruit and electuaries, and to everybody who comes to the shop whether he questions me or not, I will say, ‘Let it be known that Qasim ‘Ali is my son, begotten by me. You may kill him if you like.’’ Somebody asked Haidar how many sons he had, he replied, “Eight, the particulars are as follows:— “Two are mine, and two are my wife’s, and two belong to us both; Two others there are which belong neither to my wife nor to me.” Qasim ‘Ali was in his youth very handsome, and used to sing at social gatherings, and was then for some time servant to the Khalifah of the age (Akbar), became a man of some importance, and acquired the title of Khan, and this case was an illustration of the remark made by a man when another said to him, “Have you heard that they have made so and so a Khan?” and he replied, “Well, the mannikin deserved it.”