Muntakhab al-tawarikh 32.1

32.1

دل و عقل سر کشیده زگزند کور خانه

Verse. When Fate lets fall from the sky a feather, All the wise men became blind and deaf. Casting the advice of his well-wishers behind him, embarked on a boat with certain of his trusted followers and a thousand borrowing feet from the wind and feathers from the stream, and set out for Karra: he sent first Ahmad Chap the Vazir with an armed force and a body of retainers by land. Malik Ahmad Chap was rending his garments but all to no purpose. Verse. If the listener will not turn his ear to counsel, He will reap retribution from the heaven. The Sultan, whose life's boat had been upset by a contrary wind, and had been split on the shore of destruction, arrived at Karra on the 17th of the blessed month of Ramazan: and 'Alau-d-Din, who had kept his forces in readiness, had crossed the river Ganges between Karra and Manikpur and had pitched his camp; then he sent Ilmas Beg to the Sultan, sending by him some valuable jewels, with strict orders to use all the means he could devise and all the craft he could command to separate the Sultan from his army and bring him to further represented saying “my brother is in great fear and awe of the Sultan and is quaking from head to foot; and when he sees even this small body of men, he will be all the more alarmed, and will despair of the Sultan’s clemency.” Accordingly the Sultan ordered this body of retainers to lay aside their arms which they did;