The Book of Akbar 389.2.6

389.2.6

He was giving eyes to the blind, and was anointing the eyes of the seeing with impearled collyrium. Several times when this fortunate writer has had the privilege of private conversation with His Majesty the Shahinshah he has heard from his holy lips that “our knowingly and intentionally mounting on mast, murderous elephants when they have a moment previously brought their drivers under their feet and killed them, and when they have slain many a man, has this for its cause and motive that if I have knowingly taken a step which is displeasing to God or have knowingly made an aspiration which was not according to His pleasure, may that elephant finish us, for we cannot support the burden of life under God’s displeasure.” Good God, what an insight is this! and what a calculation with oneself! In fine, at all times, whether that of holy privacy, or that of engrossment in business, in time of battle, and in time of banquet, he is ever regardful of the real, guiding thread, and while he is outwardly with the creature, and inwardly with the Creator, he is at one and the same moment the arranger of the sections of the outward and inward and acts as the leader of both those great parties, and while deriving pleasure from both of those pleasant products adorns the throne both of the spiritual and the temporal universe. Among the events was Adham Khan’s arrival at Court.