[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 179 # The Book of Akbar 179: Return to the main narrative. The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 179 - **Language:** English ### [179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.179) When by the requirements of the mysteries of Divine wisdom and by the subtleties of eternal counsel, which arrange within the cover of every failure (namuradī) many materials of success (asbab-i-murad), there was no form of success in Sind and when the decisive test for man’s unmanliness had been applied, and the disloyalty of the army, the unhelpfulness of brothers, the folly of kindred and the unfavourableness of fortune had been revealed, his Majesty desired to don the dress of the recluse and the ascetic and to strike with the foot of longing into the desert path of the travellers on God’s way, and to take up the circumambulation \[halqa) of the ka‘ba of purpose and - [Previous: 178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.178) - [Next: 180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.180) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.179) · Pramāṇa