Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.1.2

30.1.2

Consider the winds of Autumn, how chill they are and cold, The cowardly blows they have dealt alike at the young and old. One of the examples of this allegory is the death of the late Emperor Qā'ān-i-Mulk Ghāzī, *may God make manifest his demonstrations and weigh down the scale with his excellencies,* on Friday the last day of the month of Zī-l-Hijjah in the year 683 A.H., when the moon, like kindness in the heart of infidels, could nowhere be seen, the Sun with the company of the army of Islam came forth to smite with the sword, and the great Prince who was the Sun of the heaven of the kingdom, with the light of holy war shining on his noble brow, and the unchangeable determination of "jihad" firmly planted in his illustrious mind, placed his auspicious foot in the stirrup. By night they submitted to his judgment which solved all difficulties, that Itimar with the whole of his army had advanced into the plain at a distance of three farsangs. When morning broke, he commenced to march intending to leave that place, and at a distance of one farsang coming face to face with those accursed ones, elected to draw up their forces in a place on the outskirts of Bagh-i-Sabz on the banks of the river of Lahor.