Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 56.10.4

56.10.4

In the Wakaya Babury the King writes, "On the 23d of Suffur of this year I was taken unwell, and with difficulty was able to remain in the musjid during prayers on Friday. On Sunday, I had a good deal of fever. It was on this occasion I commenced to transpose into poetry the work of Khwaja Abdool Ahrar; and it occurred to me, if I succeeded so as to please that holy man, I might through his intercession get over my disease; and so in the end it turned out, for I shortly after lost all the symptoms I had of epilepsy, and completely recovered. The metre is that of the Remul Moosudus Mujnoon, the same in "which Mowlana Jamy has written his poem entitled Saboosha. At this period of my life I used to have frequent attacks of fever, from which I seldom recovered under a month or six weeks. On the present occasion I obtained relief on the 8th of Rubbee-ool-Awul." Babur says the restoration of his health, and made a great feast upon the occasion. He distributed magnificent presents among his nobles and foreign ambassadors, and bestowed large sums to gladden the hearts of the poor. During this festival, Khoond-Emir, the author of the Hubeeb-oos-Seer, Mowlana Shuhab-ood-Deen, entitled the punster, and Mirza Ibrahim Kanoony, who came from Hirat, and were esteemed the most eminent literary men of the age, were introduced to the King. They were loaded with presents, and directed to remain in future about his person.