Taj al-maʾathir 1.2

1.2

When the train of eternal prosperity, encompassed by splendour, arrived near Lohur, and when the air of that country became perfumed and crescented by the dust of the armies and the shoes of the horses, the great Sadr Kiwamu-l mulk Ruhu-d din Hamza, who was among the chiefs of the country and the renowned of the state, and had obtained distinction by the customs of embassage and the proprieties of missions, and his position in the service of the sublime Court [may God surround it with increased glory]! had met with approval, and in the beauty of his moral character and the excellence of his endowments, the above mentioned person, in whose merits all concurred, and from the flame of whose wisdom and the light of whose penetration abundant delight and perfect good fortune arose. Indeed all kinds of excellences united in his person, And he was singularly endowed in the practice of all virtues, He was such a Sadr that the substance of greatness found in him a soul, He was a sea in which the eyes of meaning found vision.