Muntakhab al-tawarikh 60.11

60.11

Thanks be to God that the writer of this was born in the reign of so just a king, to use the words of the Prophet, may the peace and blessing of God be upon him, "I was born in the reign of the just king," on the seventeenth of Rabī'u-s sānī in the year 947 H. (1540 A.D.), but, in spite of this, would that the name of that hour and that day had been erased from the chronicles of years and months, so that I had not been obliged to leave the private chamber of non-existence, where I dwelt with the inhabitants of the world of dreams and fancies, and to place my foot into this world of imaginary existence, and to suffer so many scars of various misfortunes, all of which are branded with the stamp, "He loses this world and the next," the context is well-known.