Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.3.5

78.3.5

“ We are not come to this door, for the sake of pomp and grandeur, We are come here as a refuge from the evil of circumstances.” The Begum wrote in answer to him : — “ Show kindness and alight, for the house is thy house.” He married the Begum’s little daughter; and then, assuming the management of affairs, at the instigation of some conspirators, such as Shukūn son of Qarāchah Khān and others, slew the helpless Bēgum, and martyred Haidar Qāsim Kohbar, who for some time had been Shāh Walī Beg’s successor as [the Mirzā’s] irresponsible lieutenant. His brother Muhammad Qāsim Kohbar he imprisoned. And when a considerable body of men bound on their girdles to avenge the Bēgum, and punish him, a savage fight took place within the fortress of Kābul, in which he drove them out. And Muhammad Qāsim, having effected his escape, went to Badakhshān, and instigated Mirzā Sulaimān to expel Shāh Abū-l-Ma‘ālī; Mirzā Muhammad Hakīm, also, sent some of his people to urge him to come: as will appear later on. In this year Mirzā Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain — who is of the fourth generation from his Reverence: — "He, who is acquainted with the Freedom of God, Is the Lord of the Free, (though) the Servant of God": — after the return from Mekka of his illustrious father Khwājah Mu‘īn-ud-dīn (son of Khwājah Khāvand, son of Khwājah Yahyā, son of Khwājah Ahrār, God rest their souls!), and after his father’s receiving all honours went from Nāgor to Āgra the metropolis.