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The Book of Akbar 376.2.7

The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 376.2.7

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376.2.7

He obtained the exultation of joining the sublime assembly, which is an auspicious elixir of things temporal and spiritual, and H.M. the Shahinshah who was inwardly a student in the Divine school, came forward with reverence and did him honour. That reservoir of instruction, Maulana S‘aid Turkistani, who was at the head of the learned men of Transoxiana, and who had spent a lifetime in the society of Maulana Ahmad Junaid also made the acquaintance of H.M. the Shahinshah. The Maulana also was imbued with inward knowledge. Though he had not plunged so far into the niceties of Divine wisdom, or into physics and mathematics, yet he had attained a high rank in those sciences which are current in Transoxiana, and had not made his knowledge a cause of trouble and disturbance. At this auspicious time, when the management of political and financial affairs and the expansion and contraction of the affairs of the Sultanate were illuminated by the radiancy of H.M.