Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.14.4

78.14.4

And such was the disposition of that paragon of excellence, his Grace the Shaikh, that he allowed the Emperor to have the entrée of all his most private apartments, and however much his sons and nephews kept saying, “Our wives are becoming estranged from us”, the Emperor would answer “There is no dearth of women in the world, since I have made you Amirs, seek other wives, what does it matter?” “Either make no friendship with an elephant-driver, Or make a house fit for an elephant”. And among the remarkable events of this year is the story of the death of Sayyid Musa of Garmsir, son of Sayyid Mikri, one of the chief Sayyids of Kalpi in the land of India. It is concisely as follows. Sayyid Musa had come to do homage to the Emperor, and by chance he became infatuated with the Hindu wife of a goldsmith, named Mohini, whose beauty was like gold of purest standard, and the lasso of her pure glance attracted him as her lover, and the bond of love and attachment grew strong on both sides. “Who is the lover, that the loved one regards not his state? O Khwajah it is not pain, or if it is there is a cure”.