The Book of Akbar 226: CHAPTER XXXVIII.

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hours of the night had passed when his Majesty exalted the plain of Kabul by the radiance of his advent. Navīdī found the chronogram of this victory to be Kābulrā girift, He took Kabul. Another is the hemistich “be jang girift mulk-i-Kābul az we,” “without a battle he took the country of Kabul from him.”
When the gates of joy and gladness opened at the glorious indications of the personality of his Majesty the Shāhinshāh, and the foundations of dominion were thereby renewed, his Majesty Jahānbānī regarded not the defeat of M. Kāmrān, nor the conquest of Kabul, but abode in expectation of the blissful footsteps of his Majesty the Shāhinshāh until they brought to him, in an auspicious moment, that world-intelligence who at that time was, so far as regarded the existence of his bodily elements aged three years two months and eight days. His Majesty obtained spiritual and temporal felicity by beholding that blissful nursling of light divine, and prostrated himself in thanksgiving for the safety of the young shoot of fortune’s garden, and for the glorious acquisition of the lamp of the family. In the presence of this glorious fortune, and before this abundant bliss he opened the gates of liberality and beneficence for all mankind. On the morning after that world-illuminating day his Majesty Jahānbānī sat on the throne of fortune and attainment, and received the homage (kūrnish) of the pillars of the state and of the soldiery and servants, while at the same time the nations were made fortunate by kissing the threshold, and raising the hands of supplication implored from God the enduring glory of the Khilāfat, and the uprearing of the standards of empire. His Majesty threw open the gates of justice and beneficence before all people and tranquilly spent the winter aloft in the citadel in serving the Creator and in comforting His creatures. Of the events which happened about this time there were the deaths of Yunus ‘Ali and Muyid Beg who were leading officers of the Court. At the same time it came to the ears of his Majesty that Khwaja Mu'azzam was plotting to run away in company with Muqaddam Beg, and to convey themselves to M. Kamran. This vexed greatly his noble heart. He exiled Muqaddam Beg to Kashmir and discarded Khwaja Mu'azzam. By the felicity of his Majesty's presence and his bounteous shade the country of Kabul became an abode of security and peace and a resting-place of Divine mercy.