Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.46.6

78.46.6

In this year the Emperor was anxious to unite in his person the spiritual as well as the secular headships, for he held it to be an insufferable burden to subordinate to any one, as he had heard that the Prophet (God be gracious to him, and give him peace!), and his lawful successors, and some of the most powerful kings, as Amir Timur Çahibqiran, and Mirza Ulugh Beg-i-Gurgan, and several others had themselves read the khutbah, he resolved to do the same, apparently in order to imitate their example, but in reality to appear in public as the Mujtahid of the age. Accordingly on the first Friday of Jumada’l-awwal of the year nine hundred and eighty-seven, in the chief mosque of Fathpur, which he had built near the palace, His Majesty began to read the khutbah. But all at once he stammered and trembled, and though assisted by others, he could scarcely read three verses of a poem, which Shaikh Faizi had composed, but came quickly down from the pulpit, and handed over the duties of Imám to Hafiz Muhammad Amin, the Court Khatib. These are the verses:— "The Lord, who gave to us sovereignty, Who gave us a wise heart, and a strong hand, Who guided us in equity and justice, And drove from our thoughts all save equity, His description is higher than the range of thought, Exalted is His Majesty, Allahu Akbar!"