[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Persian and Urdu literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab) › [Qaṣāʾid-i Badr-i Chāch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach) › [Kasaid of Badr Chach (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot) › 3 # The Odes of Badr-i Chāch 3: In Celebration of a Festival. Kasáid of Badr Chách (extracts) 3 - **Language:** English ### [3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot.3) Doubtless, this festival appears as if it were held in Paradise, in which armies of angels stand on the right and left. A thousand crowned heads are bowed in reverence; a thousand throned warriors stand awaiting orders; a thousand stars (armies) are there, and under each star are arranged a thousand banners. In each course behind the screens are a thousand songsters, melodious as nightingales. If the palace of a thousand pillars were not like Paradise, why should rewards and punishments be distributed there like as on the day of judgment? Certainly this abode of happiness, Khurramabad, is chosen as a royal residence, because there the king, by his execution of the laws, acknowledges his subservience to the Khalifa of the world, Abu-l Rabi' Sulaiman, the celebrated Imam, to whom the Khusru of Hind is a servant and slave in body, heart, and soul. This Khusru is a holy warrior, Muhammad Tughlik, at whose gate the King of Chin and Khita is in waiting, like a Hindu porter. \* \* \* The blade of thy sword smites the necks of thy enemies, and with equal power does thy hand wield the pen, clothed in a yellow tunic, like a Hindu. - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.badr-chach~en-elliot.3) · Pramāṇa