Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.3.4

78.3.4

When Shāh Abu-l-Ma‘ālī returned from Mekka he went towards the Court. Suddenly near Jalwar, at the instigation of Mīrzā Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain, (P. 58) he took to rebellion, and went about laying his hands on everything he came across. This Mīrzā Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain had at this time fled from Agra, and Husain Qulī Khān, Qāḍīk Muḥammad Khān, and others had been sent in pursuit of him, as will be mentioned shortly, if God (He is exalted !) will. Then Ismā‘īl Qulī Khān and Aḥmad Beg and Iskandar Beg, relatives of Husain Qulī Khān, went in pursuit of Abu-’l-Ma‘ālī, who entered the fortress of Narnoul, and, seizing the treasures of that place, distributed them amongst his own party. And after that his brother Khānzādah (whom they also called “king of libertines”) was captured in the confines of Narnoul by Muḥammad Qāḍīk Khān and Ismā‘īl Qulī Khān, who went in pursuit of him. So, being helpless, he turned from Hindūstān and went towards Kābul. And coming into the district of the Panjāb by the jungle-side, with the concurrence of their attendants, he killed Iskandar Bēg and Aḥmad Bēg, who had got separated from the Amīrs, and then wrote a petition and sent it to the Begum Māh Jūjak Begum, mother of Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥakīm. It contained professions of regard for the late Emperor, and of the sincerity of his own fidelity, and in the beginning of it the following couplet was written :—