Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.7.7

77.7.7

“Peace on the family of Ta Ha and Ya Sin! Peace on the family of the Best of the Prophets! Peace on the Shrine, wherein there rests An Imam, in whom sovereignty and religion are preeminent!” “An Imam, yea in sooth an absolute monarch, For the sanctuary of his door is become the Qiblah of kings. King of the palace of Knowledge, Rose of the garden of Bounty, Moon of the mansion of Majesty, the Pearl of the casket of Contingency. [Peace] on Ibn Musa Riza, to whom from God Is the name Riza because doing God's will was his habit.” They say that the banner cost nearly a kror of gold. And Qasim Arslan found the date of the event in the words, “‘alam-i imam-i hashtum,” “banner of the 8th Imam”. Atkah Khan sent it with the rest of the spoils to the Court, and it was put into the imperial treasury. One of the remarkable incidents of this year was that the Khan Khanan published as his own a ghazal of Hashim Qandahari, putting the lines into a different arrangement; he ordered 60,000 tankahs of money to be paid to him by way of compensation, and asked if the sum were sufficient; Hashim by way of an extempore joke said “Sixty is too little,” upon which he increased the sum by 40,000 and gave him altogether a complete lac. From it you would infer that the Khan Khanan’s star was setting, and as a matter of fact his power at this period was on the decline. The ghazal is as follows, of which the Matla‘ is Hashim’s: —