The Book of Akbar 237.8

237.8

One day he was seated on the top of the citadel, and Walad Beg, Abul Qasim and many others of the Shah's bodyguard, who had got leave and were proceeding towards Persia came to pay their respects to the Mirza. His Majesty the Shahinshah was also adorning the Mirza's banquet with the light of his presence. All the Mirza's confidential servants were set upon rapacity (darpai akl & jar), and the men round about, who were like flies at the stall of a sweetmeat-seller, were falling upon one another. A good service presented itself to Abul Qasim, and he whispered to Walad Beg that it would be a loyal act if they who were thirty active men should do a brave deed in unison, finish off the Mirza, and glorify this young plant of the springtide of dominion and fortune, to wit, his Majesty the Shahinshah. Walad Beg, who was not a man of war, showed backwardness towards this proposal and said “We are travellers, why should we intermeddle"? As the top-thread of every act is bound to some special point of time what possibility was there of its appearing before that ?