The Book of Akbar 50.2

50.2

Keen-sighted inquirers after truth and subtle perceivers of the secrets of the skies fell into the valley of perturbation on account of these discrepancies. Now that the pattern of the philosophers of the Age, 'Azdu-l-daulah Amir Fathu-l-lah of Shiraz, has shewn by the Greek Canon and the Persian rules that his Majesty's auspicious horoscope is in Leo as has been stated above, it clearly appears that the explanation of the disagreement is not, as was commonly supposed, that the Indian philosophers deny the existence of the spheres, as has been set forth in the Second Volume. Rather it was the Divine wisdom (hikmat-i-ilahi) and the Divine jealousy which demanded that the description of this cavalier of the plain of majesty and confidant of the sublime cabinet, should remain hidden from the gaze of keen-sighted, penetrating, minute inquirers, as well as from the eyes of the evil-disposed and inwardly blind. It was from this cause, that his Majesty Jahanbani Jannat-ashiyani, who in astrolabic investigations and studies of astronomical Tables and observations, was at the head of the enthroned ones of acute knowledge and was a second Alexander,—in spite of his perfect labours and exertions in the matter of the horoscope of the Lord of the Age, did not attain to the truth (did not reveal the whole truth). And likewise all those others who were versed in the secrets of astrology, remained within the curtain of contradiction and did not arrive at a perfect knowledge of the mystery.