Between us and you there cannot be trouble,
There can be naught but love and trust.
"It is hoped that you, too, will preserve your affection for us, and
that you will not approve of certain strange actions, and that if any
suspicion about friendship arise you will endeavour by your innate
goodness and continual love to efface it. May the ever-vernal flower
of union and cordiality remain in bloom, and every effort be made to
strengthen the foundations of concord, and to cleanse the fountains of
agreement which regulate temperaments and territories. You will regard
all our dominions as belonging to you, and will extend your friendship
to everyone (in them?), and will proclaim that it (Qandahar) has been
given up to him (`Abbas) without any objection, and that such trifles
are of no importance, and that though the governor and officers who
were in the fort did some things which were obstacles to friendship,
yet what took place was done by you and me. They performed the duties
of service and life devotion. It is certain, too, that Your Majesty
will be gracious to them, and will treat them with royal kindness,
and will not shame me before them. What more need I write? May thy
star-brushing standards ever be associated with the Divine aids!"
Reply to the Letter of Shah `Abbas.
"Unfeigned thanks, and pure thanksgivings are due to the sole object of
worship (God) for that the maintenance of the compacts and treaties of
great princes is the cause of the order of Creation and the repose of
mankind. A proof of this is the harmony and unity which existed between
us and the exalted family (of Persia), and which were increased during
our time. These things were the envy of contemporary sovereigns. The
glorious Shah--the star of heaven's army, the ruler of the nations,
the adorner of the Kayani tiara, the fitting occupant of the throne
of Chosroes, the fruitful tree of the gardens of sovereignty, the
splendid nursling of the parterres of prophecy and saintship, the
cream of the Safawi dynasty--hath without ground or reason, engaged
in disturbing the rose-garden of love and friendship and brotherhood
in which for long periods there has been no possibility of a breath
of confusion. Clearly the methods of union and concord among princes
require that they make oaths of friendship to one another, and that
there should be perfect spiritual agreement between them. There
should be no need of physical contact, and still less should there
be any necessity for visiting one another's countries for 'shooting
and spectacle' (sair u shikar).