Muntakhab al-tawarikh 32.3.4

32.3.4

The kingdom is God’s and greatness is His. The massacre of Sultan Jalalu-d-Din took place on the seventeenth of the month of Ramazan in the year 695 H. (A.D. 1296) and the duration of his reign was seven years and some months. Hast thou seen the acts of the tyrant heaven and its star, Mention it not, what is the heaven, its revolution, or its arched vault? How is it that the revolving heaven has cast the sun of the kingdom headlong into the dust, Dust be on the head of his sun of glory. Sultan Jalalu-d-Din had a taste for poetry, and Amir Khusru after the death of Mu'izzu-d-Din Kaiqubad, came into the service of the Sultan Jalalu-d-Din, and was honoured by being selected as an intimate companion, and was made Qur’an keeper to the Sultan, he was presented every year with the robes of honour which were reserved for the Amirs of the Sultan and were tokens of special distinction and peculiar trust. In this same category were Amir Hasan and Muid Jajarmi and Amir Arslan Katibi and Sa‘d-i-Mantiqi and Baqi-i-Khatib and Qazi Mughis of Hansi, who is one of the most learned men of the time of Jalalu-d-Din and wrote a Ghazal in nineteen metres, of which this is the opening:— Two pearly ears, a stately form, two lovely cheeks, with fresh youth dight, Thy glory is the fairy’s pride, a fairy thou, at glory’s height.