The Book of Akbar 9.6

9.6

The venerable mother of Khan A'zam Mirza 'Aziz Kokaltash, who was his Majesty’s nurse, related the following anecdote. “One morning, before I had the good fortune to hold this supreme office, a great light approached me and entered my bosom. I felt as if the world-warming Sun had fallen into my breast. A strange condition supervened and a great astonishment laid hold of me so that all the parts and particles of my body were moved and shaken, as by excess of joy and ecstacy. And the exquisiteness of that delight still suffuses me (lit. still possesses every hair of me). And from the time of that white dawn of the morning of majesty and beauty and rose-blooming of fortune and glory, I was on the watch, thinking, ' O God ! what will be the result of this sublime feeling ? ' At length, I was exalted to this lofty service which is the treasure of realm and religion (dīn u dunyā) and of trust." Hemistich. “ Fortune is what comes to our bosom without trouble."