The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 11: HEMISTICH O well a day! O well a day! O well a day! My sun is sunk behind a cloud

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All may be said in a word. Mirza Hindal gave his life freely for his sovereign.
Mir Baba Dost lifted him up and carried him to his quarters. He told no one, and fetched servants and placed them at the entrance and gave orders: ‘Tell everyone who asks, that the mirza is badly wounded and that the Emperor forbids anyone to enter.’
Then he went and said to his Majesty: ‘Mirza Hindal is wounded.’ The Emperor called for a horse; ‘I will go and see him.’ Mir ‘Abdu-l-hai said: ‘He is badly hurt. It is not desirable that you should go.’ He understood, and however much he tried, he could not help it, he broke down.
Jui-shahi was Khizr Khwaja Khan’s iqta’. The Emperor sent for him and said: ‘Take Mirza Hindal to Jui-shahi and care for his burial.’ The khan took the camel’s bridle, and when he was going away with weeping and lament and voice uplifted in grief, his Majesty heard of the mourning and sent him word: ‘You must have patience. This sorrow touches my heart more closely than yours, but I do not give way because I think of our bloodthirsty, tyrannical foe. With him at hand, there is no help but patience.’ Then the khan with a hundred regrets, miserable and stricken, conveyed the body to Jui-shahi, and there laid and left it. monster, Kamran had not come that night, this calamity would not have descended from the heavens. His Majesty sent letters to his sisters in Kabul, and the city at once became like one house of mourning. Doors and walls wept and bewailed the death of the happy, martyred mirza.
Gul-chihra Begam had gone to Qara Khan’s house. When she came back, it was like the day of resurrection. Through weeping and sorrow she fell quite ill and went out of her mind.
It was by Mirza Kamran's evil fate that Mirza Hindal became a martyr. From that time forth we never heard that his affairs prospered. On the contrary, they waned day by day and came to naught and perished. He set his face to evil in such fashion that fortune never befriended him again nor gave him happiness. It was as though Mirza Hindal had been the life, or rather the light-giving eye of Mirza Kamran, for after that same defeat he fled straight away to Salim Shah, the son of Shir Khan. Salim Shah gave him a thousand rupis. Then the mirza told in what position he was, and asked help. Salim Shah said nothing openly in reply, but in private he remarked: "How can a man be helped who killed his own brother, Mirza Hindal? It is best to destroy him and bring him to naught." Mirza Kamran heard of this opinion and one night, without even consulting his people, he resolved on flight and got away, and his own men had not even a word of it. They stayed behind and when news of the flight reached Salim Shah, he imprisoned many of them.
Mirza Kamran had gone as far as Bhira and Khush-ab when Adam Ghakkar, by plot and stratagems, captured him and brought him to the Emperor.
To be brief, all the assembled khans and sultans, and high and low, and plebeian and noble, and soldiers and the