Muntakhab al-tawarikh 37.1

37.1

ز هوس به طبع گردان چو فلک به نقشبندی

He used to command buffoons and jesters to insult with jest and witticisms his most trusted and eminent Amirs, as for instance ‘Ainul Mulk Multani and Qarabegh who held fourteen appointments, and summoning them for that purpose to the roof of the Hazar Sutun palace, they used to perform low buffooneries, et nudefacti, gestu turpi et obscœno, in vestes nobilium honoratorum mingebant. Thus he prepared everything that was necessary for the downfall of the kingdom. Verse. There was the rose, the leaf adorned it too And the kingdom seemed to say — Oh ! King what can come to pass from wine bibbers What too can come to pass from unrestrained lust The king maddened by lust, the empire ruined, the enemy before and behind It is only too plain in such a case, what must come to pass.