Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.3.1

78.3.1

In this year Maulana ‘Ala-’ud-din Lari, author of notes in explanation of the ‘Aqa'id-i (P. 56) nasafi ,” came from the Khan Zaman’s to Agra, and applied himself to the study of the sciences, and founded a school of worthless persons, the date of the foundation of which is given by the words Madrasah-e Khas “A school of the worthless.” Then he went on a pilgrimage, and from that journey he travelled to the other world (God’s mercy be upon him !). In this year the affairs of Kabul fell into confusion, and several Governors, becoming marks for the arrows of promotion, and then of disgrace, in a short space of time felt the effects of the ups and downs of fortune. Haidar Muhammad Khan, Akhtah-begi, on his coming to Hindustan from his own quarter, had been promoted to the government of Kabul. The Khan Khanan, Mun‘im Khan, on account of the bad disposition of Haidar Khan, now wrote for his own son Ghani Khan to come, and then appointed him to supersede Haidar Khan. But Ghani Khan, through his depravity, followed in the footsteps of Haidar Muhammad Khan, and committed many discreditable actions. For instance, without any cause he imprisoned Tolak Khan Quchin, who was one of the chief Amirs. But he in turn fell into his hands, and experienced the lash of the hemistich:— “The drink, that thou givest other, thou thyself shalt drink.”