The Book of Akbar 357.11

357.11

and in addition to these qualities there is need of complete independence, so that the holder put aside his own loss or gain and engage with all his strength in furthering his master’s work. Should the putting to death of his own father be required for his benefactor’s service he should not recede but exert himself to bring it about! And together with all this, which constitutes a great gift, he should be at peace with all men. For should the Vakil of the Lord of the Age, whom the world-adorning Deity has brought out from among thousands of thousands of men, and has entrusted to him so many human beings, and has made over to him the education of so many different races and religious sects, not possess such notes (nishān), how shall the world be governed? And how shall opposing creeds, and diverse faiths, such as have sprung from the Divine wisdom, have repose? But in reality the words of those men arose from ignorance, for this appointment was an imaginary (must‘ār) one, and made for the satisfaction of the superficial, and, apart from this, the intention was to put down commotion, for all the foolish Turks, such as Qiyā Khān Kang, Sultān Husain Jalāir, Muhammad Amin Dīwāna, were in league with him (Bahādur), and were attacking Shihābu-d-dīn Ahmad Khān, Khwāja Jahān, and such like men. The world-adorning mind exalted him to the office of Vakīl, in order to extinguish the flames of those malcontents. was given Bahraich and dismissed thither.