Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.4.4

77.4.4

He brought forward the excuse that he was married to her, and so Shahim Beg became enraged with him, and all that friendship in a moment ended in hatred “ Many have I observed, through the freaks of fickle Fate, Turned from hate to friendship, or again, from love to hate,” and through pride and drunkenness of wine and youth he gave his orders, and had ‘Abd-ur-Rahmân seized; and, on the ground that Arâm Jân had first been his, he demanded her from the house of ‘Abd-ur-Rahmân, and kept her with him. But Muayyid Beg, the younger brother of ‘Abd-ur-Rahmân Beg, from a strong feeling of his brother’s wrongs, assembled a body of men, and attacked the balcony, where Shâhim Bêg and Arâm Jân were together. Shâhim Bêg rose to drive them back, and a fray ensued, in which insane affair an arrow reached a mortal part of Shâhim Bêg, and he died. The following hemistich they composed as giving the date: — “He cried ah! and said: Shâhim is become a martyr.” Be it observed that, when the numerical value of “ah” is subtracted from that of “Shâhim Shahîd shud” we get 963, the date. But, it is a disputed point, whether that fatal accident befel Shâhim Bêg in this year, or the year before; probably the latter: but God knows. Then ‘Abd-ur-Rahmân fled to the court, where he was favourably received.