The Book of Akbar 270.4

270.4

As the village of Bihsud became the camp of the pavilions of fortune, an order was given to build a strong fort. His Majesty the Shahinshah was sent off in order to strengthen the city of Kabul and that he might there practise the methods of spiritual and temporal sovereignty. His Majesty himself remained at Bihsud under the Divine aid and exercised vigilance with regard to M. Kamran. The army remained there for four or five months. The Mirza, from want of sense, (az bi isti‘dadi) was each day the guest of a clan and each night took refuge with a landholder. From a defect of nature, he remained veiled in self-conceit and excluded from the auspicious service and fellowship of such a benefactor, and was for ever indulging in seditious thoughts. At this time, a set of superficialists who were in the service of His Majesty the Shahinshah and were oblivious of an internal abode of wisdom, wrote to His Majesty Jahanbani and complained about his Highness. His Majesty, notwithstanding that he was aware of the inner light of the Shahinshah, had regard to externals, and sent a gracious letter containing instructions and admonitions, full of kindness and paternal affection and not at all of a censuring or cautioning character. For what need has he who has been taught at the Divine school,—of human instructions? or what concern has the nursling of Heaven with such didactics? In that letter this verse of Shaikh Nizami was quoted. Verse.