Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.7.4

77.7.4

The Emperor, on his way from Dihli to the Panjab, had reached the town of Jhujhar, when these insignia of power were brought to him, and their surrender pleased him much. At this halting place Shah ’Abu-l-ma‘ali, who had come to pay his respects to the Emperor, wished, in the madness of his brain, to overtake his majesty on horseback. The Emperor had him arrested and given in charge of Shihab-ud-din Ahmad Khan. And at the same stage Pir Muhammad Khan Shirwani, who was awaiting the proper season [for the pilgrimage] at Gujrat, having received information of the confusion of affairs, and of the causes of the Khan Khanan’s dismissal, set off at once to the Emperor and did him homage, and received the title of Nasir-i-mulk. When he had received the insignia and standards of Khan-hood, he was appointed by the Emperor to go after the Khan Khanan, and pack him off as quickly as possible to Mekka without giving him any time for delay. He started off quickly enough, but remained at his leisure at Nagor, and after a few days’ journey wrote a letter to the Khan Khanan as follows: — “I came, in the heart the foundations of love were firm likewise, My sorrow-laden soul is of sorrow-for-thee the companion likewise.” The Khan Khanan wrote in answer: “Your coming was manly, but your delay, after having come near, is cowardly.” The Emperor, when he had returned to Dihli, sent for Mun'im Khan from Kabul, in order to invest him with the [office of Prime-minister (Vakil)].