Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.8.7

77.8.7

“By speech knots are untied, By speech the rust of the heart is polished off: Many a knot which comes into our affairs from destiny, To open which seems difficult, Suddenly, by a graceful turn of language, That business is converted into facility.” When he arrived at Patan in Gujrat, Musa Khan Fuladi, governor of Patan, and Hajji Khan of Alwar, received him with the greatest respect, and gave themselves up to the necessary duties of hospitality. One day the Khan Khanan was taking a trip on the lake, called Sahnas Lang, where one named Mubarak Khan Afghan, (he belied his name!), whose father the Khan Khanan at the beginning of the conquest of Hindustan had ordered to be put to death, being resolved on vengeance, at the hour of evening prayer, when the Khan Khanan was getting out of the boat, came with a lot of ruffians, on the pretence of meeting him, and with one blow of his gleaming dagger made him drink the draught of martyrdom. And the date was found as follows:— "When Bairam put on the Ihram in order to encompass the Ka'bah, On the road he became a martyr, not having obtained his desire. Of my heart I asked the date of his martyrdom, It said: Muhammad Bairam is become a martyr." And the humble author of this history discovered an enigma "He said, 'The rose is gone from the garden of beauty.'"