[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) › 30.3.4 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.3.4 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 30.3.4 - **Language:** English ### [30.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3.4) \[It was on Friday, the last day of Zul Hijjah that this battle took place At the end of eighty-three and the beginning of eighty-four\]. The sun and moon wept over the face of that one of auspicious features, Day and night wept over the youth of that short-lived one. Like his orders, tears from the eyes, flowed from east to west Behold the obedience of the servants who wept without any master. In his reign birds and fishes were so happy That the fishes wept in the water and the birds in the air. The heavens with its thousand eyes wept over the people of the earth like vernal showers upon the grass. The dew which falls every morning from heaven and waters the earth, consider that as the tears of the stars who are weeping in the highest heavens. The people of Multan, men and women, weeping and tearing their hair, in every street, face to face and everywhere. No one could sleep at night for the noise of the wailing, and the beating of the drums, for in every house the mourners were weeping bitterly. - [Previous: 30.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3.3) - [Next: 30.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3.5) - [Up: 30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.3.4) · Pramāṇa