Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.4.1

79.4.1

After this event the Emperor appointed Sharif Khan Atgah governor of Malwah in his place, and having visited him at his quarters and received the greatest hospitality, he despatched him to that district. In this year the Emperor sent for Khan-i A‘zam from Agrah, where he had been for a long time under surveillance, and treating him with kindness sent him with 5,000 horsemen to assume the governorship of Bengal. And having sent for Shahbaz Khan from the district of the Kanti, he appointed him with a well-equipped army to assist Khan-i A‘zam, with orders that he should proceed to the confines of Hajipur and traversing the jungle of Kachiti should compel ‘Arab Bahadur to come out of that place. In this year Hakim-ul-mulk Gilani, being reckoned by the Emperor as one of those not to be trusted in matters of religion and faith, was sent, as has been already narrated, to Mekkah with a sum of five lacs of rupees, to be given as presents to the worthy among the sharifs and poor. And there he remained for the rest of his life:— “I will not move from the head of thy street, I am not the rolling-heavens, but the stationary earth.” And however much the Emperor sent for him he still remained there, and committed himself to God.