The Book of Akbar 192.10

192.10

The Mirza immediately took off his turban and flung it at me, and I fell down.” “ This striking and falling,” his Majesty deigned to observe, “ are visibly before me. Also at the same time they took me for good luck to have my head shaved at the shrine of Baba Hasan Abdal. That journey and the taking off my hair are present before me as in a mirror.” What is there extraordinary about this or a hundred things like it, to any one in the blissful chambers of whose heart there is an enkindled lamp ? As the thread of the narrative has extended so far, it is unavoidable that for the moistening of discourse (sirabi-i-sukhan), I say something about the remaining events of Sher Khan, about Mirza Haidar’s going to Kashmir, about the condition of M. Kamran who went to Kabul, and M. Hindal who hurried off to Qandahar, and Yadgar Nasir Mirza who made opposition and remained in Bhakkar, so that the searcher after instruction may take warning, and by the strength of a happy fortune, spend his days prudently and righteously.