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If unsuccessful, he would at once warn the Sayyids. On these terms Khan Dauran was forgiven. Mir Jumla was thus left to meet the brunt of their displeasure, and they insisted on his dismissal from Court. [M. M. 198.] It was about this time that two of the Sayyids' uncles, Sayyid Khan Jahan and Asad-ullah Khan, counselled them to retire from Court. Qutb-ul-mulk objected that they were unfit for a saintly, recluse life. Khan Jahan explained that he did not counsel retirement from the world, but retirement from Court. "Say to the Emperor that you do not wish to remain at Court, that soldiers such as you are cannot manage the duties of a Wazir or a Bakhshi; let him send one of you to Bengal, the other to the Dakhin." The brothers thought the proposal a good one, but feared that it would be misrepresented by their enemies. Sayyid Khan Jahan asked, "How so?" They replied that they would be accused of meditating independence. Then another idea was brought forward. Why should they not, in order to obtain the removal of Mir Jumla, propose that one of the two brothers leave Court at the same time as Mir Jumla. All present approved, and a request to this effect was sent to the Emperor through Itibar Khan, a eunuch. Strangely enough Farrukh-siyar had conceived a similar plan, and therefore the offer was at once accepted. [Ahwal 93b.]