Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.5.3

65.5.3

454. The end of Mirza Hindal was on this wise, that after Mirza Kamran had suffered defeat in the final engagement, and had taken refuge with the Afghans, and Haji Muhammad Khan Kuki was executed on account of his numerous misdeeds, one night Mirza Kamran made a night attack upon the camp. By chance that night the dart of death struck Mirza Hindal in a vital spot, and he drank the draught of martyrdom. This event took place in the year 958 H. and Shahkhun was found to give the date. Verse When Fate made such a night attack with the forces of the world That the zenith became red like the twilight from bloodshed, Hindal the world conqueror left the world, And abandoned the world to Shah Humayun, The young plant like stature of that shapely palm tree Was like a lamp to the sleeping apartment of the sky Wisdom sought for a tarikh of his death, I said, Alas! a lamp has been extinguished by reason of a night attack. Mirza Amini also wrote the following— Shah Hindal the cypress of the rose garden of beauty, When he left this garden for that of Paradise, The wailing ring dove uttered this tarikh, “A cypress has gone from the garden of glory.” And Maulana Hasan ‘Ali wrote Verse Hindal Muhammad Shah of auspicious title Suddenly was martyred by Fate in the heart of the night, Since a night assault caused his martyrdom, Seek the tarikh of his martyrdom in shabhhun.