The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Religion
The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Iran -- Religion; Religions
After Miyan Ahdad, his son, Abd-ul Kader, sat upon the throne of
religious supremacy. Having found a favorable opportunity, he attacked
_Zafer Khán_, who fled with the greatest precipitation; all his
baggage, with the women of his secret apartments, fell into the hands
of the Afghans; but the wife of Zafer khan, named _Buzerg Khánam_,
alone was preserved from violence by the efforts of the chieftains,
such as Navab Sâid Khan, the son of Ahmed Baig Khan Tarkhan. The
author of this work himself heard _Perí Sultan_, a person from nature
possessed of vigor and worth, who has now received the title of _Zú-’l
Fakár khán_, say: “When, by order of Sâid Khan, I went to invite
Abd-ul Khader to submit, I brought with me a great variety of victuals
and liquors, that he might be seduced by their effect. One day, an
aged Afghan, after having tasted some sweetmeats, rose on his legs and
said: ‘O Abd-ul Khader, from the time of thy honored ancestors to this
day, never the foot of a Moghúl reached this place; he who is now come
intends to deceive thee, with garments red and yellow, and with
victuals pleasing and sweet, which are coveted by those who are slaves
of their belly, but which are abhorrent to the rule of durvishes: the
best measure therefore is to put him to death, as an example to
terrify others from coming hither.’ But Abd-ul Khader and his mother,
_Bíbí Aláí_, the daughter of Míyan Jelal eddin, would not agree to it.
On the day when Abd-ul Khader visited the camp of _Sâíd Khán_, his
horse was frightened at the noise of the kettle-drums and horns, and
dashed from amid the crowd to one side; an Afghan observed: ‘The horse
executes what the lord Miyan Róshen has ordered, but you do not; be
sure you shall suffer from the after-sickness of this debauch.’ Abd-ul
Khader asked: ‘What has Miyan ordered?’ The Afghan replied: ‘To keep
at a distance, and to beware of the Moghuls.’” When Abd-ul Khader
presented himself at the court of the lord _Abúl Mazafer Shaháb-eddin
Muhammed, Sáheb-i-Kerán sání Amír al Múmenín shah Jehan Pádshah,
gházy_, “the victorious,” he was elevated to a high rank. In the year
of the Hejira 1043 (A. D. 1633-4) he reached his last day, and was
buried at Paishaver.
_Mirza_, the son of _Núr-eddín_, lived in the reign of the lord _Amír
al Múmenín Shah Jehán_, and was killed in the battle of Dóulet-abad.
Kerimdad, the son of Jelal eddin, was delivered up by the tribe of the
Jelalian to _Muhammed Yakub Kashmírí_, the _Vakíl_, “agent,” of _Sâíd
Khán Terkhán_, and he was put to death in the year of the Hejira 1048
(A. D. 1638-9). _Alhedád Khán_, the son of Jelal-eddin, having been
honored with the title of _Rashíd Khán_, was appointed to a command of
four thousand in the Dekan, and ended the term of this life in the
year of the Hejira 1058 (A. D. 1648-9).[34]
[32] According to Akhun Derwazch (of whom hereafter) Bayazid
had five sons. _Khair eddin_ is placed between the last
mentioned above.
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