Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.13.7

33.13.7

Such a scheme having been soon guessed at, brought about an union of concerns between those two Princes, equally threatened; and here we must admire that Providence which overset that well concerted scheme by bringing friendship and union out of the chaos of aversion and mutual mistrust, and could render the Afghans, those inveterate enemies of Abul-mansur-qhan and his family, so many faithful assisters, and so many zealous well-wishers of Shudjah-ed-dowlah's prosperity. It is true the latter had cultivated a friendship with Nedjib-ed-dowlah, and with the several Princes of Aaly-mahmed-Rohillah's family; but now the common hatred against the Vezir, Umad-el-mulk, and the common dread of an addition of power to the Marhattas, had drawn closer the bands of union between those Princes, so as to verify the famous sentence: