Muntakhab al-tawarikh 379.8

379.8

Since a complete revolution, both in legislation and in manners, greater than any of which there is any record for the past thousand years, has taken place in these days, and every writer who has had the ability to record events and to write two connected sentences has for the sake of flattering the people of this age, or for fear of them, or by reason of his ignorance of matters of faith, or of his distance from court, or for his own selfish ends, concealed the truth, and, having bartered his faith for worldly profit, and right guidance for error, has adorned falsehood with the semblance of truth, and distorted and embellished infidelity and pernicious trash until they have appeared to be laud then the people of this world set their faces towards the resurrection, And raise their heads in bewilderment from the dust, Captured, by their evil fate, in disobedience, Their faces blackened with shame for their sins, When, in that confusion, in the heat of the Resurrection-Day, The rocks shall become water from the fierceness of the sun’s ray, When there shall not be, in all that plain full of grief, Any refuge but the shadow of the Most High, Of Thy bounty, O Creator, Lord of many claims, Cast the shadow of Thy favour on my head!