The Book of Akbar 2.9

2.9

و بعد از آنکه بشارت دهندگان عالم غیب از احوال سعادتمآل آنحضرت آگاهی بخشیدند، نام جلالتانتظام آن کارنامهآ ایزدی را، چنانچه امروز منابر و مناشیر بآن سربلند است و وجوه دراهم و دنانیر بآن شکفته، بیان فرمودند. و چون حضرت جهانبانی بدولت بیدار شدند ازین بشارت عظمی و نعمت حسنی سجدات شکر الهی بتقدیم رسانیده کیفیت آنرا بمحرمان حریم خاص و ملازمان آستان اخلاص درمیان آوردند (شعر)

At length, on 4th Rabi'u-l-awwal, 947, of the lunar (Hijra) era (Friday, 10 July, 1540) his Majesty Jahanbani Jannat-ashiyani had, after paying his devotions to the Author of bounty, laid for a time his head on the pillow of repose and his limbs on the couch of tranquility, when, suddenly, under the auspicious veil of sleep,—hence called the cabinet of secrets—he became aware that God, (Glory be to Him) was bestowing on him an illustrious successor whose greatness shone from his forelock, and the lightning of whose splendour was flashing from his temples. From the light of his guidance, the dark regions of thoughts and opinions were illuminated, and the glory of his justice was lighting up the fields of night and day. It is in accordance with the communication which was made by the messengers of the invisible world regarding his Majesty (Akbar) that the glorious name of that divine masterpiece exalts at the present day, pulpits and proclamations. The superscriptions of the gold and silver coins also tell of it. When his Majesty awoke, he first returned thanks to God for the majestic message and splendid grace and then told the circumstance to the intimates of his harem and the servants of his threshold. Verse. A sleep which tore the veil from before the eyes of the soul. Cannot be called sleep; it was the heart's waking.