The Book of Akbar 203: (Yadgar Nasir Mirza.)

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It is certain that the end of the unfaithful, like the commencement of their deeds, is rejection by every heart (mardud-i-dilha). The wise do not place reliance (i‘tibar) on unstable reliability (i‘tibar). They wait in expectation of these ingrates receiving their portion so that they may be thankful and rejoice at their getting the punishment which is due for transgressions of rectitude, inasmuch as this will be a warning to mankind, and also an adminicle of the repentance of the wicked. Accordingly when Yadgar Nasir M. had been led from the right path by the deceit and perfidy of the ruler of Tatta and had remained in Lohri (Rohri), he stayed nearly two months there after the departure of his Majesty Jahanbani. At last it became clear to him that the proposals of the ruler of Tatta were all pretence, and his representations based on lies. Being helpless he abandoned his projects and proceeded towards Qandahar, though Hashim Beg who was one of his truth-speaking well-wishers and well-pleasing (riza-ju) followers, told him that his joining M. Kamran and his leaving the service of his Majesty Jahanbani were not approved of, and that the world was a place of retribution, and that he should reflect upon this. And it is a thing certain that the mind of him whose day of calamity is at hand, becomes darkened, that he displays audacity in injuring his benefactor, and that he reckons the advice of the right-thinking as wind and does not admit it into the ears of his understanding, and that he regards the weighty words of the wise as fables and fictions. Accordingly Yadgar Nasir M. being unblessed, went toward Qandahar. He arrived at the time when M. Kamran had brought the fort of Qandahar to extremity, and did homage to him; and accompanied him to Kabul. M. Kamran sent a person to the ruler of Tatta and requested him to send with all respect her Highness Bilqis-makani Shahrbanu and her son M. Sanjar, for they had separated from Yadgar Nasir M. and had remained in the Bhakkar territory. The ruler of Tatta sent them in a suitable manner, together with a large number of persons who had separated from his Majesty Jahanbani Jannat-ashyani and were in that territory. By mistake or design it occurred that these people were sent by the route of the waterless and forageless desert. Many of them perished and when the remainder came to Shal, fever broke out among them. Her Highness Bilqis-makani died. Out of 2000 or 3000 men who were wandering in that caravan, only a few escaped with their lives and reached Qandahar.