Muntakhab al-tawarikh 362.4

362.4

“ Thanks be to God that I am a follower of the faith of the prophet, The love of the prophet and of the race of the prophet is my guide. I am disgusted with Brahmans, prayer-gongs, and Ahriman, I am a denier of the faith of monk, priest, and fire-angel, “Outward form, and inward truth are not united in every king, Akbar the emperor is the king both of outward form, and inward truth He is the emperor at whose court, when he holds it, King after king falls down in fear before the doorkeeper’s staff.” “The heart in my bosom is not broken by the stone of calamities For the glass of my (heart) is made of a diamond.” When the imperial camp was on its way to Kashmir for the first time and I, having taken leave, went to Basawar, my birthplace, Nishani wrote the following verses, and sent them to me from that country (Kashmir). God knows whether he wrote (the same verses) with the same warmth of feeling to several others, and pleased them also, but until another claimant appears I have made the verses my own.