The Book of Akbar 376.4.3

376.4.3

They stayed there four months, and then Muhammad Amin Diwana and some servants took the proper course and set off for the mankind-protecting court, taking with them ‘Abdu-r-rahim. Before they had kissed the threshold, news of Bairam Khan’s death had reached H.M. the Shahinshah, and a gracious order was issued for the attendance of ‘Abdu-r-rahim. This order reached Jalor at the time of friendlessness and orphanage and was healing for broken hopes. The purport of the order was that he should come to Court and be reared by the Shahinshāh. Several true men such as Babai Zambūr, Yadgar Husain, brought that new fruit of loyalty to Agra in the middle of the sixth divine year, corresponding to the beginning of 969, September 1561, and submitted him to the testing eye of H.M., and exalted him by prostration on the threshold. H.M. the Shahinshah, in spite of evilspeakers and evil-thinkers received that child of lustrous forehead, in the lines of whose brow there were the notes of nobleness and truth, with inborn kindness, and reared him in the shadow of his own supervision. In a short time he was distinguished by the title of Mirzā Khan. Day by day his good manners and nobility of nature revealed themselves, and he attained to lofty eminence. He was raised to the very highest rank, that of Khan-Khanān. An account of this will be given in its proper place.