The Book of Akbar 256.7

256.7

The bucket of success must at one time come up full from the waters of hope and at another, it must, by a revolution of the wheel, go down empty.” Hail! eternal fate! which rules the beggar and the king, and directs the cycle of fortune and misfortune, which holds the key of deliverance for those in bonds, and causeth the exalted to fall. Until men have passed through the dark night of the hours of affliction, they know not the glory of the world-warming sun, and until the thirsty lips have sought the desert mirage, they are not watered at the spring of desire. This event is a proof of this, for on that day there was the apparition of the eventual salvation of His Majesty. He proceeded to Zuhhaq and Bamian whither he had sent many of his loyal officers. ‘Abdu-l-wahhab, Farhat Khan, Muhammad Amin, Sabdal Khan and others accompanied him. Muhammad Amin and ‘Abdu-l-wahhab were ordered to form the rear guard. On account of weakness and of the distress from his wound, he took off his cuirass and made it over to Sabdal Khan who, out of stupidity, flung it away. Next day many of his servants joined him. One day he sent Shah Budagh Khan, Tulak Qucin, and Majnun Qaqshal—ten in all,—towards Kabul to serve as a rear guard and also to keep a look out, but Tulak Qucin only returned. He was received with favour on that market day of testing and raised to the office of Qurbegi. The confidential servants were summoned and a council was held.