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were loyal, they could not go to Court while Mir Jumlah was there; 
but they were willing to go on active service. Why should they remaiq. 
at Court when there was no real but only apparent friendship. “ Ser- 
“ vice and submission are from the heart, not from the tongue.” 1 
Farrukhsiyar, who was much cast down at the refusal of his 
friends to act, followed up this negotiation with further attempts to 
conciliate the Sayyads and offers of doing their will, swearing many 
oaths that he would never attempt to injure them again. Khwajah 
Ja‘far, the holy man, an elder brother of Khan Dauran, Sayyad Husain 
Khan, Barhah, Sayyad Shuja £ at Khan and others, went to and fro re¬ 
peatedly. At these interviews the Sayyads expatiated, as usual, on their 
good services and the devotion they had shown, diversified by loud 
complaints of the Emperor’s ingratitude. At length they said that they 
were convinced that the flames of illwill had been set alight by the 
efforts of Mir Jumlah and Khan Dauran. So long as those two gentle¬ 
men were left at Court they did not feel justified in presenting them¬ 
selves there, for they would still be afraid of renewed attack. But 
Khwajah Jaffar succeeded in overcoming their objection to Khan 
D auran. He entered into a solemn covenant on his brother’s behalf, 
that he would never again act towards the Sayyads contrary to the rules 
of true friendship. Should the Emperor entertain any such project, 
he would hinder its execution to the best of his ability. If unsuccess¬ 
ful, he would at once warn the Sayyads. On these terms Khan Dauran 
was forgiven. Mir Jumlah was thus left to meet the brunt of their 
displeasure, and they insisted on his dismissal from Court. 8 It was 
about this time that two of the Sayyads’ uncles, Sayyad Khan Jahan 
and Asadullah Khan, counselled them to retire from Court. Qutb-ul- 
Mulk objected that they were unfit for a saintly, recluse life. Khan 
Jahan explained that he did not counsel retirement from the world, but 
retirement from Court. “ Say to the Emperor that you do not wish 
“ to remain at Court, that soldiers such as you are cannot manage the 
“ duties of a wazlr or a hahhshl; let him send one of you to Bengal, the 
“ other to the Dakhin.” The brothers thought the proposal a good one, 
but feared that it would be misrepresented by their enemies. Sayyad 
Khan Jahan asked, How so ” P They replied that they would be 
accused of meditating independence. Then another idea was brought 
forward. Why should they not, in order to obtain the removal of Mir 
Jumlah, propose that one of the two brothers leave Court at the same 
time as Mir Jumlah. All present approved, and a request to this effect 
was sent to the Emperor through I’tibar Khan, a eunuch. Strangely 
1 Ahivdl’i.Tctiawdqin, 88a to 91&. 
2 Mirza Muhammad, 198, 
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