In March 1644, just days after her 30th birthday, Jahanara's heavily perfumed kameez, trousers, and pairhan, robes, caught fire. She suffered serious burns to her body and Shah Jahan himself nursed his beloved daughter back to health.
The same year, princess went on a pilgrimage to Moinuddin Chishti's shrine in Ajmer. She wrote a biography of Ajmer's Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, titled Mu'nis al-Arwāḥ.
A year after the accident, Jahanara had fully recovered.
