Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.5.4

65.5.4

Humayun bestowed the horses and retinue of Mirza Hindal upon the young Prince, the asylum of the world, and confirmed to them Ghaznin with its dependencies as grants. The Afghans could no longer protect Mirza Kamran, and it so happened that Mirza went to Islem Shah; in the meanwhile the hidden purposes of Heaven were made manifest, so that after hearing the tidings of the death of Islem Shah, and of the occurrence of extreme confusion and turmoil between the Afghans of Hindustan and the tribal chiefs, Humayun definitely determined upon the attempt of the conquest of Hindustan. In the meantime the lovers of contumacy, that is to say, the envious and riotous, so distorted the appearance of the sincere loyalty of Bairam Khan, in the clear mirror of the mind of Humayun, that it was inverted and he was represented by them as hostile. Accordingly an attack was ordered in the direction of Qandahar. Bairam Khan came out in person to receive Humayun and with all ceremony offered due service. Thereupon the disloyalty of his traducers became apparent. On this occasion Humayun was furnished, by the good offices of Bairam Khan, with the opportunity of meeting that Scion of the Walis, the offspring of the Saints, the seal of the Shaikhs of the Naqshbandi sect, Maulana Zainu-d-Din Mahmud Kamangar. The following is a fuller account:—