Miscellaneous Topics on Indian History

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One day, during the time when accounts of Hímún's vigorous measures were daily arriving, Bairam Khán took the Prince into the presence of the Kutbu-l Aktáb Saiyid Jalál Thánesarí, and procured him the honour of kissing the feet of that most holy individual. When they were about to depart, they begged him to give them the assist­ance of his prayers. They said, “This accursed infidel is coming with an army numerous as ants and locusts; it is proper that your holiness should protect the cause of Islám.” The Saiyid reflected for a short time, and then said to them, “Have you not heard what little boys at play say?” He then dismissed them. On the morrow they marched to a distance of seven kos from Karnál, where they encamped. Hímún, who had taken posses­sion of the Dehlí throne, being informed of the coming of the Mughal forces, went out with regal pomp from Dehlí, with the intention of fighting them. It is related, that when Hímún was proceeding to Dehlí against the nobles of King Humáyún, he encamped near Old Dehlí. The evening preceding the day on which he expected a battle, he went to the sanctified mausoleum of the Kutbu-l Aktáb, His Highness Kutbu-l Hakk, the pole­star of religion and piety, and placing the head of entreaty on the august threshold, vowed that if he were destined to conquer Dehlí,—if the throne of Dehlí were granted him, and the Mughal troops put to flight,—he would become a Musulmán on his return to Dehlí, and diffuse the religion of Muhammad. The Almighty gave him victory. But he perjured himself, and did not become a Musulmán, or forsake his heathen prejudices; nay, he even persecuted the Musulmáns. But at last he saw what he did see.

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