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The dazzling flashlight of the professional historian often gives a blurred impression, The average man can have little interest in Akbar for he is almost stunned by the weight of his commanding personality.
adventurer, born and bred up in the Moslem creed became the national emperor of India, the enlightened patron of arts and letters and the founder of a new religion ?
The truth is that Akbar was a highly nervous man and that at times his wrath blazed forth in spite of the fetters of self-control he had imposed on it.
Akbar wanted to make the Muslim faith conform to truth, but smaller minds than his, interpreted it as a direct attack on the faith.
It is said that at one time Akbar believed Christianity to be the best religion on earth, but turned away from it because of the demand of monogamy it made.
Akbar's new religion, the" Din Ilahi, " (as it was called) has afforded his critics some shelter.
He makes out that it was love of power that induced Akbar to deny the authority of the Prophet and start a new religion.
Akbar became the vicegerent of the new faith not be cause he was hungry after power, but because, he was convinced that he stood nearer to God than most of his subjects.
Akbar sincerely hoped that those who like himself were·beset by doubts would find relief in the · new religion.
The Emperor Akbar has an honourable place in Muslim history.