[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 326.4 # The Book of Akbar 326.4 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 326.4 - **Language:** English ### [326.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326.4) The sum of the matter is: the Light-Increaser of Creation’s workshop commits to the keeping of His own sublime Grace, the charge of the affairs, whether in mass or in detail, of a nursling of light who shall have obtained deliverance from the darkness of creature-worship and have made his heart radiant by the splendour of the worship of God. He (that is to say, the Deity) does not distress him by narrowing his soul within external affairs, and He incorporates his aspirations with others which have not passed into the scope of his spiritual mind, and which cannot be comprehended by the world-spirit, and places them in the bosom of his Fortune. And having enthroned him in the kingdoms of the visible and invisible He makes him leader of armies temporal and spiritual. Every base and perverse one, whose fortune’s flame has been extinguished by the winds of adversity, has an intellectual veil let down in front of his eyes of Vision, and comes out into the darkness of denial, and the obscurity of opposition, and sinks into the slough of ruin by his own act. Accordingly the glorious status of H.M. the Shahinshah has become impressed in thousands and thousands of instances on the minds of the recalcitrants of the desert of wandering, who once had connexion with the dominion which is conjoined with eternity. These will be referred to in their proper place. - [Previous: 326.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326.3) - [Next: 326.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326.5) - [Up: 326](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.326.4) · Pramāṇa