Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.10.5

61.10.5

At last he left this world of regrets, wounded by countless sorrows, and abandoned his kingdom to the desire of his enemies. The duration of his reign was nine years. His body was taken to Sahsaram and buried by the side of his father. This event occurred in the year 961 H., and by a coincidence it happened that in the course of this (self same) year Sultan Mahmud of Gujrat, who had adorned the throne with justice and equity and the fear of God, drank the cup of martyrdom at the hands of his servant Burhan. Nizamu-l Mulk Bahri, the king of the Dakhan, also took his way to the ocean of non-existence, and Mir Saiyyid Na'matu-llah, whose poetical name was Rasuli, who was one of the incomparable learned men and a close companion of Islam Shah, wrote this chronogram: Verse. At one time came the decline of three emperors, Whose justice made Hindustan the abode of safety. One was Jamshed the... Who, like his empire, was lost in the sea of youth; The second was Sher Shah that of... Whose beloved was Kbrat; The third was Ghiyas-i-din... Who as Jupiter was on the throne of the... If you ask of me a truth for the deaths of these Emperors? I answer Zawal-i-shahana. Islam was not having a gift for poetry had many apt quotations in his memory, and being a clever critic, used constantly to practice the art of versification with Mir Saiyyid Niamat Tashfi, and used to compose many elegant verses and to enjoy listening to those of his fellow poets.