[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 1.10 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 1.10 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 1.10 - **Language:** English ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1.10) At this juncture, when Time departing from its usual custom, has treated me in the matter of leisure with some sort of liberality, it has come about that I have been able to steal a morsel of the chequered hours of my life from his grasp, so that I renewed my intention and confirmed my purpose, and on this ground that there is no bygone event which has not left something for the present, “If the peasant thoroughly clears under the sheaves of wheat He leaves the sparrow’s portion on the ground,” I have selected and transcribed accurately a portion of the circumstances of some of the autocrat Emperors of Hindustan from the Tarikh i Mubarak Shahi and the Nizamu-t-Tawarikh of Nizami which is as it were a drop in the ocean and a bubble of the turbulent floods, and have also added somewhat of my own, and have kept before me the desirability of conciseness and have imposed upon myself the necessity of avoidance of all affectation of style and metaphor, and have named this modest composition Tārīkh. I hope that this imperfect collation and composition, whose object is the perpetuation of the auspicious names of the Emperors of Islām, and the transmission of a memorial thereof in this changing world until the final consummation, may lead to the pardon of the author in the world to come, and not be an augmentation of the crimes laid to his charge. “And do thou, O Nightingale, as thou roamest through this garden, With all thy sweetness, abstain from blaming the defects of the crow.” - [Previous: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1.9) - [Next: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1.11) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.1.10) · Pramāṇa