Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.1.5

30.1.5

Thereupon these wild loving desert born savages, placing the feathers of the owl upon their ill-omened heads, while the Ghazis of Islam, kings of Turkestan and Khilj and notables of Hindustan, and all the soldiery made the battlefield a place of prayer—as the Holy Apostle, may the blessings and peace of God be upon him, declared that the holy war was closely allied to prayer, saying 'we return from the lesser holy war to the greater holy war', reciting the takbir, raised their hands in prayer, and in the first attack they put to the sword a considerable number of ablebodied men of the Mughal cavalry, and the lances of the Maliks of the Court this day, for the tongue of my point by reason of constant fighting and slaying is blunted, and I have no power left of opposing the enemy with thrusts, I fear lest I should leap up and should commit some untoward act. The arrow too was saying, Thou, the knot of whose bow-string opens the knot of the Jauzhar, do not advance to meet this danger.