Muntakhab al-tawarikh 12: Ode.

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Oh thou that hast formed the design of travel and girded the loins of conquest, Right and left of thee the heavens have opened for thee the doors of conquest, Mas'ud, the world-conquering, for whom the age of fortune Has sent forth every moment the heralds of conquest, Like a lance-point thou hast placed thy head in the direction of battle, Like an arrow thy waist girds up the loins of conquest, In sooth, a hundred victories thou winnest, and a hundred years hence In Hindustan in all directions will be seen the traces of thy conquest. So many are thy conquests, that in the expanse of the world Every day in every place they tell the tale of thy conquests.
Thy spear and thy arrow and thy sword will be If my fancy limns a line, the painter of the forms of conquest. When thy sword said I will deal a light blow Its oath lay not heavy save on the head of conquest.
The Ustad Abul Faraj Runi too was eulogist of Sultan Ibrahim, and also the panegyrist of Sultan Mas'ud, and many odes in their honour are to be found in his Diwan, and Run is the name of a village of the dependencies of Lahore, and in these days it is as one may say in ruins, because not a trace of it remains, and the following in praise of Sultan Ibrahim is by the Ustad Abul Faraj.
Hail to the might of thy powerful sword Precious as the breath of life, and rare as wisdom itself. Thou hast imprisoned that lifeless one, as one seizes the throat. Thou hast made orphan this which has no issue like a peerless pearl.
And Mas'ud Sa‘d Salman with that envious nature which is peculiar to poets, bore a grudge against Ustad, who became the cause of Mas'ud’s imprisonment for ten years, he wrote this ruba'i (quatrain) in prison.
For thy prison such a prisoner as Malik Shah is necessary So that thy fetter may chafe the foot of monarchs That one who springs from the loins of Sa'd Salman Even were he a serpent would not sting thy realm
The following verses are also by him:
My heart has become rent in all directions like a comb from regrets Because I saw a white hair in the tooth of the comb
There are extant also Diwans by him in Arabic, Persian and Hindi.