The Book of Akbar 265: CHAPTER L. · Expedition of His Majesty Jahanbani to Extinguish Another Time the Seditious Flames of M. Kamran.

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Inasmuch as habit is, as they say, a fifth humour of the body,—whoever is addicted to evil ways is like the scorpion, and in stinging is without the power of self-control. How much more they who are constitutionally bad and in whom habit accords with nature. Accordingly M. Kamran again inclined towards his disposition and practice and made his evil deeds the instrument of his own punishment. He gathered together a number of Afghans from the Khalil and Mahmand tribes and a troop of vagabonds who could not distinguish good from evil, and set about plundering and ravaging. His Majesty Jahanbani, who was the giver of peace to the world and the age, recognized that the ending of such tumults was a part of worship, and he resolved to act in accordance therewith. He sent Khw. Ikhtiyar and Mir ‘Abdu-l-hai, who were confidential courtiers, to Ghaznin, to convey a gracious letter to Haji Muhammad and recall him from the darkness of evil thoughts to the light of recognition of duty. While His Majesty was making his preparations, he heard that M. Kamran was besieging, with a number of vagabonds, a fort near Carbagh in the vicinity of Jalalabad. He therefore did not wait for Haji Muhammad Khan, but went off with all rapidity towards Jalalabad. When M. Kamran heard this, he was amazed and fled. He again betook himself to the defiles and went off from there by Bangash and Gardiz, thinking that he might join Haji Muhammad. For this perverse wretch held with M. Kamran.
The story of Haji Muhammad is as follows. As the time of his ruin approached, evil thoughts came forth more and more from his