The Akbarī Generations 93.5

93.5

"When the fort was captured by the Arghúns, a party of them entered my house, seized on my father, Mauláná Ibráhím Jáma', (who, in studying and teaching various sciences for sixty-five years, had, in the evening of his life, lost the use of his sight,) and made him prisoner. Seeing the neatness and comfort of our house, they suspected that gold was somewhere concealed, and consequently treated us with great indignity. Another person came and bound me, and sent me as a present to the wazír of the Mírzá. The wazír was sitting on a wooden platform in the open area when I reached his house, and he ordered me to be bound with a chain, of which one end was tied to one of the feet of the platform. I did not, however, grieve for myself, but I could not help shedding tears, when I recollected my father's sad condition.