The History of Shēr Shāh (Tārīkh-i Shērshāhī) 3.5.6

3.5.6

If Your Majesty will confer these parganas on Sulaiman, Farid Khan will very quickly come unto your presence again. It is now long since that Sulaiman, flying from him, sought refuge with me; and if he attains his rights, he will ever be your obliged servant." Sultan Muhammad replied, "He has done me much good service, how can I give away his jagirs to another, and that for a trifling fault, and without inquiry? However, to please you they shall both bring their cause before you. Both are similarly related to you—do you favour neither, that the right may be established, and the dust of the enmity which exists between them may be allayed." Muhammad Khan, when he was dismissed, returned to his own jagir, and sent Shadi Khan, his confidential servant, to Farid Khan with a message to this effect:—"It is not right for you to take possession of both parganas and to disinherit your brothers, and lay the foundation of strife among your own kindred. I have sent Shadi Khan to you, and I hope you will take heed to what he will say to you. Your brothers have now been a long time with me, and the laws and customs of the Afghans are no secret to you."