The Book of Akbar 54.5

54.5

in cloisters.” The next expression Sakinān-i-majāmi‘-i-ins may mean dwellers in mosques ” as the note to this passage in No. 564 seems to hold, but I am inclined to think that here it means laymen or those who carry on the affairs of the world, in opposition to the solitaries and ascetic. What A. F. intends to say is, I think, that by Akbar’s birth, everybody attained their desires, that is both the lonely ascetic and the worldling, and thus the whole universe was benefited. It may however be that the two classes of holy men are intended viz., anchorites and men who live in monasteries or congregations of saints. I admit too, that this interpretation seems to agree better with what follows, viz the description of such persons “preserving the stars from wrong.” But see Text (87) where we are told that the preparations for the revelation of the unique Pearl (Akbar) were completed, as now the stages of solitude and society had been traversed. not aor; that the we are told other nurses prince from accepting.