Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.2.4

61.2.4

It must not be forgotten that it is by no means improbable that this same good intention may be the cause of the salvation of that faithful king from the fire (of hell) although he fell into the fire, in the Day of Reckoning, for the Almighty, may He be glorified and exalted, is satisfied with little and very bountiful, and the story of 'Amr ibnu-l-Lais [who for all his vast army and equipment, which gave him the pre-eminence over all kings of 'Iraq in the four quarters of the globe, was always regretful because he had not been present at the slaughter of Imam Husain, may God Most High be pleased with him, so that he might have smitten and destroyed the followers of Yazid, and of his having a vision in which he was walking in the gardens of Paradise] is well known: say, *every man acts after his own manner*, that is after his own desire. Verse My brother thou art all desire naught else All the rest of thee is but bone and fibre If a rose is thy desire, thou art a rose garden, If a furnace is thy desire thou art its fuel. And in the year 952 H. (1545 A.D.) Shir Shah invested the fortress of Kalinjar, which is one of the strongest and most famous of the forts of Hindustan, and with great energy and skill in a short time prepared galleries, and used to make daily attacks upon the bastions; and by the time that the galleries had advanced near to the walls of the fort, and the mines were ready, attacking on all four sides he made the condition of the garrison very precarious.