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that with his wealth he could manage the affairs of the state: but his wealth not only deprived him of his realm, but also contributed to his losing of his reason.
On the death of Mohamed Azeem Khan (1238, A.H. 1823.A.D.) the king of his choice one Ayub Khan was at Kabul. As we have related in other of our contributions, his kingship was in reality the kingship of his minister. After his death, his sun Habibullah Khan took the road that his father took, and took the power which father excersied over the king. But there was a considerable difference between the father and the son. Beyond money he had not inherited anything from his father: and also he was a man who believed in good living. Seeing these weekness in in his son, Sirdar Azeem Khan given the guardianship of his son to one named Nawab Jabar khan. The son, however, forgot his father's orders, and ratherthan act on advise of his father, he sent his guardian out as the governor of Ghazni, so that he could be away from the totalage of his guardian.
In the first instance there arose a struggle between Prince Ismail the son of Ayub Shah and Habibullah khan. The prince was that the powers of his father were really usurped; and that he struggled to regain the power of his father, whereas Habibullah khan was of the view that even those prerogatives which were only in name, they, too, could be curtailed; thus he approached his uncle of kandahar for is execution. At that time two points attracted the attention of the Barkzai Sirdar in kandahar; one was their desire to face Shah Mahmud at Herat, and the second was to uphold the kingly prestige at Kabul. At that time, too, Sirdar Shair Dil khan was engaged in a battle with Shah Mahmud, Sirdar Purdil khan immediately came to kabul. After meeting Ayub Shah, he put him in prison at Bala Hisar. PrinceIsmail, the son of the deposed and imprisoned king was killed. In this way, therefore, the last figure of rule of the Saduzais was removed from. But for the second time Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan disagreed, and a fight ensued between him and Shair Dil Khan in the neghbourhood of Bala
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