Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.5.4

77.5.4

And Shaikh Gada-i Kamboh, son of Jamal Kambo-i (a poet of Dihli, who after the second defeat in India during the time of the exile at Gujrat had come to the Khan Khanan) through the influence of the latter, they put over the heads of all the magnates of Hindustan and Khurasan, and appointed him to the high office of Çadr. And the Khan Khanan, nay even the Emperor himself, was often present at his house at singing parties, where the most abject flattery rained down on all sides, and which became a regular hypocrisy-shop. And, — since, from the time of the establishment of Islam in Hindustan, God (praise to Him, and glorious is His Majesty!) has created the great Shaikhs of this country, just the opposite in nature to the secular princes, viz., always peasantnatured, servile in disposition, and low-minded, and since their pomp and glory has never consisted in smiting with the sword, but in flattering others, in spiritual hypocrisy, and ignominy, and the garb of dignity and honour has ever been too strait for the stature of their ambition — the chief Imams, at this exaltation of Shaikh Gada-i, about the eminence of whose family they had stories, went mourning from house to house, and so the Arabic Proverb “ The death of the great has exalted me” became verified : — “ At my rival’s insolence I’m mightily surprised, O may that beggar Gada-i ne’er be highly prized.”