The Book of Akbar 237.7

237.7

Culi Bahadur too, who was a loyal and approved servant, was put to death, and Khwaja Mu'azzam, Bahadur Khan, Atka Khan, Nadim Koka and many other household servants were put into prison. The Mirza thus prepared for himself spiritual and temporal ruin, and an evil name in realm and religion. He was continually tempting and ruining men by deceitful letters. Among such was Sherafkan who was induced to desert; and Hasan Beg Koka and Sultan Muhammad Bakhshi were by lies brought to separate themselves (from Humayun). Insincere, low dispositioned ones of narrow capacity for the idea of a small advantage put the dust of the world into the cup of their avarice and trod the path of disloyalty. And it appears that the main cause of the capture of Kabul was the discord of men and their negligence and want of vigilance and circumspection. For at that time Muhammad ‘Ali Taghai was Darogha of the city for his Majesty Jahanbani, but he continually took the path of carelessness, and did not apply the rules of wariness. Fazil Beg too set up for himself a separate scheme (lit. a separate shop) in the city and had ideas of becoming independent (of Muhammad ‘Ali). From smallness of capacity and inefficiency they opposed one another and struck an axe on their own foot. When Kabul fell into the hands of the Mirza he set about collecting troops and in arranging for sedition. A large number collected round him.