The Events of Mushtāqī 3.6

3.6

His friends also had similar noble dispositions. My father, for instance (may God be merciful to him!), had a numerous family. When Zainu-d din's expenses were reduced, my father's family and friends remonstrated with him for continuing on his establishment, observing that other persons holding offices of greater emoluments no longer remained in the service of the Mian, whereas he remained for two or three years. He replied that it was through the wise dispensation of God that he got his employment, that people who are compelled to work for their livelihood, if pay be withdrawn, will no longer serve, and that what he wished was moderate, and that his desires were satisfied. He had accumulated, he said, enough during his service to enable him to maintain himself and the Mian for two or three years. And upon his friends again remarking that they well knew he had nothing of his own, he said he would sell his houses and books, he would have no care as long as anything remained in his possession. So, without receiving any salary, he remained three years with Mian Zainu-d din, and after his death, four years with his sons, serving the family altogether for a period of fifty-five years. There was a Mughal by name Mamun. Having resigned his situation at some other place, he entered the service of Mian Zainu-d din. Soon after Sultan Sikandar died, and the Mian became poor, the Mughal remained still faithfully attached to him, for he was a very good man. * * *