476 M. Hammer's Memoir on the Diplomatic Relatio7is 



APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



Letter written in the year 964 (A.D. 1G5G), from Shah Akbar to Sultan Suliman, and 

 sent by the Turkish Captain Saiyad All 



Wishes, breathing every morning- from the point, " the victory cometh from God, and 

 the conquest is near," and shining forth from the bridal bed of the text, " Victory dwel- 

 leth but in God the most honoured and the most wise," — are presented to those who are 

 attached to the Sublime Porte of his Majesty, elevated as monarch, invested with the 

 dignity of king, possessed of the magnificence of Solomon, the pole of the sky of great- 

 ness and fortune, the centre of the circle of majesty and empire ; who consolidates the 

 foundations of Islam by his victorious standards ; the most sincere of all Sultans in word 

 and in deed; the most true of all Khakhans in truth and evidence; who strengthens the 

 bonds of justice and equity, and destroys the rule of injustice and tyranny ; who com- 

 mands his subjects to keep the statutes of the law, and is ennobled by the text of the 

 Koran : 



" He (God) has sent you as Khalif on earth, a refuge of the princes of the time, an adjuster 

 of the lords of the age." 



Verse : 



" O Shah 1 whose name is engraven on the seal of greatness, and in whose time the Khalifat 

 has been carried to perfection ; who opens the gates of magnificence and government 

 with the keys of true direction ; who grasps the necks of enemies by the auspicious aid 

 of God's assistance; who is the orient of divine light; who adorns the throne of the 

 Khalifat and the title of King of Kings ; the adjuster of true faith ; the keeper of the 

 evident law ; may his victorious standards be elevated to the height of Arcturus, and the 

 recording verses of his victories be inscribed on the leaves of the skies ; may the degrees 

 of the columns of revenging power be increased, and the steps of overpowering majesty 

 be augmented I" 



Of God the dispenser of grace, — may his essence be sanctified, and his attributes 

 shine forth ! — is asked the duration of the days of empire, and the perpetuation of the 

 Khalifat which ensures the welfare of God's servants: and these wishes are inscribed 

 on the tablets of the Divan which concedes every tiling, and whose grants are adorned 

 with the royal cypher (toghra) of accomplishment. 



God be praised that the gates of mystic inspiration are opened by the kej-s of evi- 

 dence ; and that by his direction, the throne of Sind and of Hind is once more graced 

 as the seat of magnificence and majesty, like that of Solomon. 



Although, hitherto, correspondence and mutual communications with you, the Khalif 

 of high qualities, have not existed, yet the most excellent qualities and exalted virtues 



