Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.9.6

61.9.6

He was so exceedingly ill-favoured, mean-looking, and oafish in appearance that they used to call him Bābū-i-kaddū, which in Hindūstān is the term used for applied to a weaver. Islām Shāh himself had raised him from the very lowest of the low, and had given him a position of intimacy with the highest, so that he made him the envy of the noble Amīrs, and would not permit him to be out of his sight for one moment. From that day forward, when he recognised that sword, he deprived him of his rank, so that he made him an example of the saying: 'Everything returns to its original state;' but in spite of the incitation of the Amīrs of the Afghāns that he should put him to death, he replied, "I am heartily ashamed to destroy the man of my own training." Verse. Water cannot swallow down wood, knowest thou why? It is ashamed to destroy that which it has reared. Islām Shāh, who had for this same reason become distrustful of Afghāns, now became afflicted with complications of his disease, and increased the opium in his wine, and the snake-bitten one drank a draught of poison, and thirsting for the blood of the Afghāns, became more than ever set upon eradicating them. The crisis was as though it was saying to him: Verse. Thou hast laid a foundation, which will destroy thy family, Oh, thou whose family is destroyed, what a foundation thou hast laid!