The Book of Akbar 243.1

243.1

M. Kamran in his folly and want of wisdom brought, for the sake of his own protection, that nursling of the garden of sovereignty and that new fruit of the springtide of the Khilafat—viz., his Majesty the Shahinshah—in front of the guns, and kept him in a place where it was difficult, on account of the marksmen (qadr-andāzān) of the victorious army, for an ant or a grasshopper to pass. What humanity was this? Or what beast of prey or demon has such principles? Why did the tongue of him who gave such an order not grow dumb, and the arm of him who executed it not refuse its office when it encompassed that tree of fortune and planted it for such a purpose? The eye which could not see the manifest claims of his Majesty Jahanbani—an elder brother, a venerated father’s representative and a benefactor—; how could it perceive the world-adorning beauty of his Majesty the Shahinshah when concealed within the veil of honour, and when it was immature and in the dawn? How shall a heart which from the anguish of envy is trodden under foot of sorrow and is at enmity with Almighty God, perceive the rays of Divine light when enclosed in a human form? How shall he who cannot see the right path for himself divine the proper course for another?