The Memoirs of Bābur 935.7.3

935.7.3

again:—do not neglect the condition of matchlockmen and of Ūstād Muḥammad Amīn the armourer[2480]; again:—directly this letter arrives, thou must get my elder sister (Khān-zāda Begīm) and my wives right out of Kābul, and escort them to Nīl-āb. However averse they may still be, they most certainly must start within a week of the arrival of [Sidenote: Fol. 360b.] this letter. For why? Both because the armies which have gone from Hindūstān to escort them are suffering hardship in a cramped place (_tār yīrdā_), and also because they[2481] are ruining the country." "Again:—I made it clear in a letter written to `Abdu'l-lāh (_`asas_), that there had been very great confusion in my mind (_dúghdugha_), to counterbalance being in the oasis (_wādī_) of penitence. This quatrain was somewhat dissuading (_mānī`_):—[2482] Through renouncement of wine bewildered am I; How to work know I not, so distracted am I; While others repent and make vow to abstain, I have vowed to abstain, and repentant am I.