Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.8.5

61.8.5

Finally he came to Sirhind, and giving up all connection with the manners and customs of the Mahdawi party (moreover he turned all the Mahdawi party from that faith) began to deal with all the followers of Islam according to the tenets of the orthodox school, till eventually in the year 993 H., at the time when the Emperor was on his way to Benares, he summoned Shaikh 'Abdullah and granted him a portion of madad-i-ma'ash land in Sirhind with remainder to his children. And in the year 1000 H., he bade farewell to this transitory world at the age of ninety or thereabout. Ruba'i. If the courser of the sky give the reins into your hand, And if the world gives you wealth as the dust under your feet — If your wisdom surpasses the wisdom of Aflatun, These are all as nought, at last you must die. After that Islam Shah had overcome the Niyazi faction, and had returned to Agra, Mulla 'Abdu-llah set about inciting him, and giving him a song which reminded him of former intoxications, again induced him to summon Shaikh 'Ala'i from Hindia, and to order punishment to be executed upon him, and spared no pains to remind him in the ripest possible way, that Shaikh 'Ala'i had been condemned to banishment, whereas now Bihar Khan had become his disciple and follower, and the whole army had shewn their leaning towards him. Seeing that his own relations had sought absolution from him and had adopted his faith, there was great probability of disturbance in the kingdom.