Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.29.5

79.29.5

The Emperor conferred the province of Chitōr on Bāz Bahādur, and took away the district of Sambhal from Abu-l- Fazl and gave it as jágír to Mírzá Qandahárí. And Multán, which had become completely desolated by the tyranny of Mírzá Rustam, he converted into Crown property. At this time Sa‘íd Khán Mughul came from Bangálah to Court, and brought an elephant and much money and precious products of that country from ‘Ísá Khán the Zamíndár as a present to the Emperor. In this year Shaikh Ya‘qúb Kashmírí, who had the takhalluṣ of Çarfí, had obtained permission to leave the Court, and return to his native country, when he died: “Verily we belong to God, and verily unto Him do we return”: — “All our friends are gone, and have taken the road to the Ka‘bah, We with tipsy foot remain at the door of the wine-seller. Not a word of the points we proposed has been solved, We are left beggars, without this world or the next.” On the night of the twenty-seventh of Zí-ḥajjah of this year Ḥakím ‘Ain ul-Mulk, who had gone on an embassy to Rájáh ‘Alí Khán, and had returned thence to Híndiah (which had been appointed as his jágír), after an illness of five months departed to the other world. Extolled be the perfection of God! our acquaintances and friends one by one withdraw their heart from our companionship, and lightly hastened, and still do hasten, to their everlasting home, while we in this sadness and despair drag on an existence in folly and forgetfulness of our end: —