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A. S. Beveridge —Khwajah Muhammad Muqim. 
[No. 2, 
The first fixed date in Muqim Harawi’s life is Jumdda I. 974 H. 
(1530). Its last is 1003 H. (1594), a period of 64 years. Of the 
date of his death, I know nothing; Nizam rarely names his father, as 
such, and does not chronicle his own joys and sorrows, so that nothing 
certain can be gathered from his silence. 
There are indications — too slight to carry weight without a long 
criticism of the story of Mahdl Khwajah’s threat against Mir Khalifah 
—which point to Harawi’s being a young man at the time it concerns, 
viz. 974H. If the story had been written down in or near 974 H., there 
must have been set against these indications of youth, those of adult 
wisdom contained in the advice offered by Harawl when he reported 
to Mir Khalifah the threat against him which he had overheard from 
the mouth of the Khwajah. But the record is of much later date, and 
was made when Harawl and Nizam were both grave men. Possibly 
the wisdom is a reflection of maturer years; it was certainly not 
needed as an argument against Mahdi’s succession by the man he 
threatened and in whose power it lay to raise him to the throne or—as 
was done—to pass him by. One doubts too, if any diwan-i-buyutat — 
whatever the number of his years—would have ventured to argue with 
the “ pillar of Babar’s Empire ” as to anything he had proposed to himself 
to do, but even the youngest servant might have reported a speech 
which betokened treachery to one of his master, Babar’s, most trusted 
adherents. 
Summing up the points as to Muqim Harawi’s age, it seems to me 
that if he did not long survive 1003 H. and was a young man in 974 H. 
his whole career may well have been one of under ninety years. 
