The Book of Akbar 245.1

245.1

As it is fixed and recorded in the Academy of Divine knowledge, which is the “guarded tablet” of sempiternal writings—and all the arts and sciences in that sanctuary of the presence are the offspring of instruction’s school—that the possessors of the new material of reason are to be brought, on the emergence of articulate speech, to learn the combinations of letters (huruf-i-murakkaba) and to acquire general knowledge, viz., that which has been put together by united cares and intellectual essays, and by special progressions and classifications to walk in the beaten paths of reason, so this scholar of the Divine Academy and graduate of God's college was, in compliance with use and wont, taken to man's school on 7th Shawwal of this year, 20th November, 1547, being the fourth year, fourth month and fourth day of the eternity-conjoined life of his Majesty the Shahinshah. The weighty office was conferred on the Mullazada Mulla (teacher the son of a teacher) ‘Asamu-d-din Ibrahim. Though in the eyes of the superficial his Majesty was taken to be taught, yet according to the view of the far-seeing he was carried to the lofty position of teacher.