The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 2.1

2.1

Ali Kufi, the writer of this book on the history of Hind and the recorder of the conquest of Sind, the household slave of Muhammad mad son of Ali, who was a son of Hamid who Kúfi, had spent a period of his life in leisure and obtained a good deal of pleasure and enjoyment in But subsequently, owing to the vicissitudes and changes of fortune, he left his dear native place his residence in the sacred town of Uch, where for some days. Again, the divine order these days of different success interchangeably each other among men” was received, and server of destiny changed the drink of joy into of sorrow. During the stay of the writer place, he had to experience pleasures succeeded again, owing to the hardships of the revolving had to taste many a drink of poison and to bear of calamity. In 613 A.H., at the age of 58 gave every other occupation and busied himself exquisite books [he began to reflect (and say as something of every science or branch of knowledge other miscellaneous subjects had been already the mind of the writer, and as learned men philosophers of the time have, in their respective written some history or other book, with the patrons and masters, and thus left behind them their memory;