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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49.4

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 49.4

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49.4.1

The month of Dai has arrived, and the air has in consequence become so cold
That nothing save the icy breeze can move from its place.
The earth is cold and frost bound, the air is even colder than the earth,
In very truth the air is chill with the weariness of age.
In the garden the fire of the tulip and Gulnar have died down,
From the cold the (graceful) trees of the garden have become mere sticks.
The water is hard frozen from the cold, and says with petulance,
I will break if anyone places his foot upon my head.
No single bud comes out from its resting place in the heart of the tree, although it wears upon its cypress-like body a cap and mantle.
The bird has ceased its song when it saw the havoc wrought by autumn,
When a general pillage is going on, lamentation is futile.
Seek not for leaves and seed-bearing fruit in the garden, for to-day
The leaves have been scattered by the wind, the seeds remain hidden beneath the earth.
The morning breeze draws every breath like a deep drawn sigh,
Seeing that it has cast to the winds so beauteous a being as the rose.
So far has the rose gone that should you search the East and the West,
You will not find it save in the assembly of the King of the World,
Shah Mahmud from the splendour of whose assemblies, there is eternal spring in the month of Dai, and the world is like Paradise.
He who when he draws up his array, and orders it for battle, The lines of the enemies at the very sight of him pale with terror.

49.4.2

His heart is the rising place of sacred knowledge, and he has knowledge, Because he fathoms the secrets of Fate with a glance.
Oh thou who in the rules of Government art an example to vazirs, The vazirs have issued no order save on the authority of thy judgment.
If it be not the intention of the wind to write a memorial of thy virtues Why does it scatter the leaves of the rose in the garden, 281.
The sun in comparison with thy (brilliant) judgment looks like Suha Although Suha cannot be seen in the bright light of the Sun.
Thou slayest thine enemies, and Time confesses thy excellence; Thou art the refuge of the people, and the evil doers take shelter under thy wing
The cupbearer of thy feast bears a cup of joy in his hand, The herald of thy fame has the whole world beneath his feet.
The banquet of Truth cannot be spread save in praise of thee Although the whole feast terminates with the distribution of sweetmeats.
Hail Khusru! even should I remain excluded from attendance upon thee I shall not take one moment’s rest from praising and eulogising thee
My duty is thy service, since were I to refrain from that I have no other occupation save singing thy praises Thou The wind draws lines across the stream like the scribe as he drives his pen,
The eye of the narcissus points to the sky like the eye of the astronomer as he prepares his tables.
The parrots flaunt in green attire, the magpie wears white garments,

49.4.3

The crow is devoid of any such honourable vestments, wearing as it does a black blanket.
You would say that the narcissus has produced a transcript of these people (umam) who sleep below the dust Look! it has for each alif two nuns.
The sumbul and narcissus are copies of the locks and eyes of the fair ones,
Of these two, one falls prostrate stricken with blackness, the other comes intoxicated (with love).
Tho water-lily has blossomed by the blast of the breeze of the garden.
In truth, he who has a resigned heart rejoices even when misfortune befalls him.
You would say that And in truth after Qazi Zahir no poet arose in Hindustan whose poetry repaid the trouble of reading. After the death of Sultan Mahmud the great Amirs of Hindustan as for instance Mubariz Khan and Malik Idris who was the ruler of Rohtak, quarrelled with Khizr Khan and were disposed to make common cause with Daulat Khan, Khizr Khan accordingly stood fast in Fathpur and made no expeditions to any country.

49.4.4

In Muharram of the year 816 H. (1413 A.D.) Daulat Khan having gone towards Kaithar on a hunting expedition and having brought the Rais of that district into his toils, went to Batauh, and Mahabat Khan the Wali of Badaon came thither and joined him. And in this year Sultan Ibrahim besieged Qadir Khan the son of Mahmud Khan in Kalpi, and Daulat Khan being very short handed, ignored him, and omitted to send reinforcements to either of these places, and Khizr Khan in Zi-l-qa'da of this year came to the fortress of Firozabad, the Amirs of which district came into him, and Malik Idris was besieged in Rohtak. Khizr Khan marched by that route to Miwat and taking with him Jalal Khan Miwati the brother’s son of Bahadur Nahir, conveyed him to Sambal which place he pillaged, and in Hijjah of that same year he encamped before the gates of Dihli with the intention of taking it; Daulat Khan held out for four months, but at last was compelled by the want of agreement with Malik Lona and the other supporters of Khizr Khan to sue for peace, humbly and earnestly. He had an interview with Khizr Khan who threw him into prison, and delivered him to Qiwam Khan who conveyed him to the fortress of Firoza and slew him. This happened in the year 816 H. (1414 A.D.) on the seventeenth of Rabi'u-l-Awwal.
Everyone whom the world favours, she at last spills his blood, What can be the condition of that child, whose mother is his enemy.

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