History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c40.s5.10

v3.c40.s5.10

Shah Jahan, therefore, as a wise man must submit to the divine dispensation and accept Aurangzib's triumph as the best thing that could have happened to him! "Nothing can happen without God's will. Therefore, this great event is not due to any mortal’s power or will. Why do you, though a wise man, consider another as the author of what is (really) God’s doing? Submit to the will of God, and your sorrows and tribulations will turn into peace and contentment!” Nay more, the deposed Emperor must thank the son that had deposed him: “If you look (at the matter) with eyes of justice, you have no cause of complaint in that I have relieved you of such a heavy load and taken it on my own shoulders and made my (hitherto) free mind the slave of a thousand afflictions and fatigue.”