Later Mughals v1.c9.s30.1

v1.c9.s30.1

By the middle of Muharram 1131 H. (7th December, 1718) Qutb-ul-mulk had been absent from Court for two or three months. In that month the Emperor passed several times close to his house on the way to and from Firuz Shah's Lath, towards which he had gone to hunt, but on no occasion had Qutb-ul-mulk come out to the door to make his obeisance, as required by etiquette. Farrukh-siyar was now in a state of terror at the approach of Husain Ali Khan, whose well-known violence of temper and vigour of purpose he much dreaded. He and his advisers thought it prudent therefore to win over Qutb-ul-mulk, so that he might act as a peace-maker and not as an increaser of strife. Since, by this time Farrukh-siyar had abandoned all hope of destroying the Sayyids, success in this new project was looked on as far from impossible. But, as Yahya Khan says, he did not recollect the saying, "After you have lost your sight what is the use of treatment?" [Yahya 124a, Kamwar 185, M.M. 417.]