The Rashīdī History 123.3

123.3

In the winter of the same year, Shahi Beg Khan went to attack the Kazak in Mavara-an-Nahr, that is to say, the Dasht-i-Kipchak. Shahi Beg Khan [first] took my father to Bokhara, but when he went to attack the Kazak, he left him in Samarkand. He returned in the spring, and then set out for Khorasan, entrusting my father to the care of Timur Sultan, his son, to whom he had given Samarkand. So my father spent that spring in Samarkand, while I was living with my sister in Bokhara. At this time news came that Sultan Mahmud Khan had left Moghulistan and was advancing on Andijan, with complaints and demands. Shahi Beg Khan sent to beg my father to come into Khorasan. My father accepted the invitation and went. He felt his end was drawing near, and on the tablet of his fate he recognised the hue of martyrdom. His hope of safety being more slender than a spider's web, he devoted all his attention and energy to providing for my safety, so that should his precious soul be drowned in the whirlpool of martyrdom, I at least, on the shores of safety, should be protected from risks and dangers.