The Rashīdī History 110.8

110.8

How often in misfortune is there a hidden blessing! Although waiting in that place was a cause of great affliction to them, it turned out most providentially, and in a way which the most far-sighted person could not have foreseen. For at this very crisis, the advance of the standards of Shahi Beg Khan on Hisar, and the approach towards Kunduz of the drums of Mahmud Sultan, caused the boasting Khusrau Shah to desert his kingdom, as has been related above. He, too, fled to the hills of Ghuri; and on his arrival there, learnt that the Emperor was still among the mountains. That same night his servants and retinue, both great and small, from the Mir to the groom, all flocked to the court of the Emperor. Khusrau Shah saw nothing left for it but to hasten also to offer his services. Yet this man had put out the eyes of one of the Emperor's cousins, Sultan Masud Mirza, and had brought Masud's brother, Baisanghar Mirza, to the bier, after having raised him to the throne; also, at the time when the Emperor had arrived on his frontier, he had, with extreme harshness, ordered him to quit the country. Moreover, Mirza Khan, a younger brother of the cruelly-treated Mirzas, whose father and mother were both closely connected with the Emperor's father and mother, had shared in all the Emperor's sufferings and trials in the mountains, and was at this time with him.