The Akbarī Generations 93.7

93.7

"The people around the Mirza were talking upon religious subjects, when my father was respectfully brought to that assembly, and the Mirza, after bestowing khila'ts, the one on my father, the other on myself, encouraged my father to relate to him the circumstances of his life, and he accordingly related them, notwithstanding the agitation of his mind. He recounted them with so much pathos and eloquence, that the auditors were charmed with him, and the Mirza requested the pleasure of his company, on his return to his own country. "The Mirza ordered all of my father's plundered property to be restored, and that a compensation in money should be given for that which could not be recovered; but my father begged to be excused from accompanying him, saying that he was too old to undertake such a journey, when the time of his preparing for his last pilgrimage was so near; and according to his words he did die only two months after this occurrence."