The Book of Akbar 321.1

321.1

During the auspicious time which the sublime army was spending in Jalandhar, news came of the rebellion of M. Sulaiman. Arrangements were made for sending succour. The particulars of this affair are as follows: When the terrible news of the death of H.M. Jahanbani Jannat Ashiyani reached Kabul and Badakhshan, M. Sulaiman and his son M. Ibrahim, whether because there is little truth or sincerity in that country, or whether because of their inexperience and ignorance, which degraded them from the rank of self-interest and made them seek their own harm, or because they out of an evil disposition sought their own advantage in the injury of others, or at the instigation of wicked, short-sighted persons who looked to nothing but their own interest, and the prompting of Haram Begum the Mirza’s wife, without whose concurrence he could not conduct any of his state-business, and whom he, out of weakness (kucakdili) had made ruler over himself, from exceeding shortness of thought, and heedless of the fact that the throne of the Caliphate had received celestial elevation by the sacred accession, departed from their hereditary obedience and dutifulness to H.M. the Shahinshah, whose service is productive of greatness, and raised the head of rebellion. M. Sulaiman looked to the confusion of the time and to the apparent immaturity of the Khedive of the world, which was but a veil of world-adorning beauty, and laid claim to sovereignty.