The Rashīdī History 171.8

171.8

As my maternal uncle Mahmud Khan has said [couplet in Turki] ....: "No one ever met with fidelity from the world or its people. Oh, happy that man who has nothing to do with the world!" [Verses.] . . . But the pearls of these intentions found no place in the shell of the Moghul Khákán's ears. . . . Thanks be to the Most High God that this servant has at length found the means of avoiding them. It were also preferable to abstain from further words on this matter. To return to the thread of my narrative. Mansur Khán, having given him every possible assurance of safety, took Amir Jabár Birdi back into his service, and after the return [of the Amir], the Khan's affairs began again to improve. From the year 910, which is the date of [the commencement of] Mansur Khán's disturbed and turbulent reign, to the year 922, the date we have now reached in our history, Mansur Khán lived in Chálish and Turfán. During this period many important events occurred. In those times the brothers [of the Khan's family] quarrelled among themselves, and everybody in the Moghul tribes was rebellious. On this account, Mansur Khán dismissed the Arlat—an ancient order of Amirs—and, bringing the Kirghiz into his power by stratagem, put many of them to death. He once went to war with the Kálmák, and won a signal victory over them.