The Rashīdī History 127.10

127.10

Khwaja Salih and Maulana Yusuf were dressed like merchants, Maulana Khaliki, Darvish Piri and the Khan were in the guise of students, and looked very like kalandars. Mir Ahmad and Jalal passed as servants of the merchants. Thus attired, they set forth and reached Kala-i-Zafar in perfect peace and safety. Here they found Mirza Khan, who received and entertained them as well as his straitened circumstances would allow. They remained there eighteen days. Now, since Mirza Khan was a very feeble man, some of his retainers, on account of his weakness, thought fit to offer the Khan the government of Kala-i-Zafar (which was not worth half a loaf of bread). But the Khan declined, saying: "Mirza Khan, who is my cousin, has been exposed to a thousand hardships, by crooked fortune. It would be contrary to all rules of good feeling and justice to oppose him, or to deprive him of this [possession]." The Khan accordingly hastened to depart, and went on to Kabul. Eighteen days after his departure, I arrived at Mirza Khan's [capital], as has been mentioned above.