The Book of Akbar 358.6

358.6

As that disloyalist was himself meditating on sway and sovereignty, he did not give any room to Shah Abu-al-M‘aali, and sent him to Bairam Khan. He arrived at the town when Bairam Khan’s affairs were in convulsion. For the sake of apparent loyalty he confined him and sent him to Biana. At last, at the time when, under malign influences, he was going to Alwar, he released him from Biana Fort and turned him loose on the world, as has been stated. The Shahinshah’s victorious standards had reached Jhajhar, when that headstrong and disrespectful one came in his folly and offered the kornish from horseback. H.M. ordered the mad man to be put in chains and to be made over to Shihabu-d-din Ahmad Khan in order that he might be sent off to the Hijaz. On this occasion, too, the spiritual and temporal Khedive, acting on the advice of old servants, and out of consideration of the times, ordered the release of such a sedition-monger. They should have released his futile soul from the prison of the bodily elements. Alas, alas! that they should not have freed that essentially and innately wicked one from the burden on his neck (his head). Because his evil soul long remained connected with his body, many wicked deeds of his came to pass. He thus became still more the subject of eternal punishment. I now leave this subject and return to my task.