What I feel is some humans do not understand what is love? what is family? What is a mother? Maham is one of them. She has made a make believe world for herself where jalal is a means to her end to get what she wants a higher status, richer and power. Adham was her self respect her guroor her life that is why when he died she crumpled. Jalal was never her love her life etc he was just a means to achieve her goals. Blood is always thicker. You know the love we fill for our child, our siblings, our parents we can never ever feel the same to others. We may say we love that man that uncle etc as a father butt the love we feel to own father is usually much more than a foster one always. Look at jalal the way he misses his father humayun he does not miss BK or atagha same way. A father is a father even if you have hardly lived with him.
Here what everyone including CVs forgot that Akbar had many more daima's and Maham was not the only one. Others have not been possessive of him although they also took care of him, risked their life for him etc like an atagah and his wife jiji anga. They have never demanded their pound of flesh ever and were contended with what he gave them. They also has son Aziz why they did not dream to make Aziz an emperor? Why Aziz like adham never demaded what Akbar has toys, position, taqt because his parents have brought him up nicely with correct values. If adham is bad its not adham's fault its the way maham has brought him up simple. She is responsible through him for killing of so many because she gave him bad values and she is responsible for him thinking he can kill jalal and become emperor and she is responsible for adham's death.
God forbid what would have happened if Eitmad khan had not told jalal to save himself and adham had walked into bedroom and killed a sleeping jalal or if adham had killed jalal in the fight. Then maham would she have cried over jalal death and cursed adham and his kids etc, never. She would be gloating with pride that adham was now emperor and would have treated ruqaiah and jodha worst than slave. Look at how Akbar treated maham and javeeda after adham's attack no difference same respect same love and as family. They had freedom to live in their palace and all facilities of an emperor relatives(OK in serial they show maham was put in jail which is historical lie). Would adham have done same to Akbar's family? Never. If Akbar had been killed by adham would maham have gone mad, stopped eating, lost will to live never she would be in seventh heaven.
So Maham can fool a jodha and hamida etc with her over acting and may make Akbar into a guilty son but she cannot fool rest of world who can see through her true colors. You can fool some people all the time and all people sometime but cannot fool all people all the time. Maham is obsessed with idea of being wazir e aliya rather being mariam makhani. That is why she has controlled jalal so much all life not even allowing him to be close to his own parents especially hamida bano. A BK and atagha have not been so obsessed with being jalal's only father to not allow him to be close to his father. Hence akbar feels humayun loss so much like a son who has spent all life with his father. But with hamida jalal cannot find that connect because Maham never allowed hamida and jalal to get close in fear that her position as badi ammi will be in danger if akbar gets close to his mom.
Usually when a parent has more than one child the parent loves one more than another or others always. That is why when some child dies although parent has more children they lose hope to live. When our favourite child betrays us we lose will to live. That has happened with maham she lost her favourite child adham for whose happiness she lived who was her life. She lost her will to live. All this I have two sons is an emotional blackmail tactics to make innocent people like jodha, Akbar to feel guilty and make them think they have done big crime. All life Akbar will now think he did big crime by killing adham so and indirectly caused his badi ammi's death although he was not at real fault. That is the biggest triumph of an evil daima aka badi ammi. She took her revenge on her innocent ever obeying and loving son jalal atlast even in her death. Its like the black widow spider that spins a web and attracts its mate and then kills it slowly and brutally while getting benefits of becoming a mother through that mate.