Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.25.6

79.25.6

And he brought a petition from the grandees of Badaun, and When the Emperor had read them all, he said: “A sickness won’t last for five months.” And so he did not give me permission to make the Kuruish. So I remained repulsed, grieved, and disappointed in the camp, which was left with Prince Dānyāl at Rohtās. But I made my fortress the reading through of that impregnable castle, viz., the words of the Best of the Prophets (God bless him, and his family and give them all peace!) and the repetition of the Qasīdah-i burdah; and He who answers the prayer of the distressed accepted this my sad and humble petition, so that after five months the occasion of His Majesty’s return from Kashmīr to Lāhōr rendered him favourably disposed towards me, and on the pretext of my making a translation of the Jāmi‘-i Rashīdī, which is a very huge volume, some kind and true friends, such as Mīr Nizām-ud-dīn, mentioned my name confidentially at his private audience. And so a command was issued that I should wait upon him. After his return from Kashmīr on the day of of the festival month of Bahman, the divine month, which corresponded with the seventeenth of Rabī‘-ul-ākhir of this year the Emperor granted me an audience. I offered him an ashrafī, and approached him with the greatest respect, and so the removal of that cloud of alienation and suspicion became facilitated, thank God for it!