The Book of Akbar 384.1

384.1

Whenever the world-adorning Deity establishes the pillars of an auspicious one He totally subverts his opponents. He overthrows those who begin by showing wheat, but who sell barley, together with the open and secret foes, and in order that the rule “the most important and then the next most important” may be observed, he begins by trampling in the dust of contempt the openly and inwardly perverse and sends them as outcasts to the realm of annihilation. Then He despatches the inwardly worthless to the abyss of ruin and so cleanses the world of those who with vulpine trickery come in the guise of loyalists and do the work of enemies. In brief, when God the world-adorner made such a victory fall to ‘Ali Quli Khan’s lot He increased the stock of his infatuation. He did not send to court the spoils of this celestial victory, which was a gift of God. The world-conquering mind of the Shahinshah wished to visit the eastern provinces so that the Khan Zaman’s infatuation might not become madness. But as he knew that the correction of Adham Khan, who after the Malwa victory was become seditious, was the most important matter, he determined on visiting and regulating that province which was one of the glorious gifts of God.