Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.5.8

65.5.8

In that collection of stories also is the following, that when Bairām Khān, after making over Qandahār to Bahādur Khān the brother of ‘Alī Qulī Khān Sīstānī, came to Kābul, he appointed on his own part a tyrannical Turkoman, so that the people groaned under his oppressive hand, and made many complaints to the Akhūnd, till he became ill as they desired, and they enjoyed a few days’ respite from his oppression, and used to bring tidings of him every day to the assembly of the Akhūnd. At last one day, as one of them was saying “He has risen from his bed,” the Akhūnd also, looking him in the face, said angrily, “Perhaps he may rise on the morrow of the resurrection.” Three or four days afterwards he again fell ill, and removed the disgrace of his tyranny from the world. It is a saying of theirs that the Turk when sleeping is an angel, but when he sleeps the sleep of death he is superior to the archangels. I saw a tyrant sleeping at mid-day I said, this is a calamity; it is best that sleep should take him And that man who is better when sleeping than when waking For such an evil liver death were preferable.