Muntakhab al-tawarikh 43.3.4

43.3.4

With the Empire of justice shone with ease, like the sun. The land of Hindūstān came under his sway like that of Khurāsān; A fortress like that of the Haft Khwān he built of Haft Jūsh, which in loftiness Would need the Nasr-i-Tā’ir to be planned, inaccessible as Harūmān. So strong that it registered a vow to last till the Resurrectionday, but by reason of the vicissitudes of time, it became destroyed in many places like the web of a spider. You will find nothing upon the top of its walls but the voice of the owl. In its topmost garden you will see nothing but the ill-omened raven. It befits the duration and pride of Empire that its condition should become in accordance with the words “God most High is far above all that the tyrants of men say of Him.” And among the celebrated poets of the time of Sultān Muhammad is Badr who wrote a Shāhnāma in his honour, of some thousand verses, and for the very reason that it is a history in poetry it is a valuable acquisition.