The Rashīdī History 154.6

154.6

After this, the faith of Islam having lost all its splendour, the darkness of evil spread over all the servants of God, and they raised their supplications to heaven. [Five couplets in Arabic . . . .] The arrow of their entreaties reached the target, and God heard and answered them. When Kushluk was setting out to attack the kingdoms of Chingiz Khan, the latter sent a body of Nuin to check Kushluk's evil progress. He [Kushluk] was, at that time, in Kashghar. The chief men of Kashghar related that when [the Nuin] arrived, and before they had drawn up in line, Kushluk turned his back and fled, while the regiments that arrived one after the other, of the Moghuls [az Moghulán] demanded nothing of them but news of Kushluk. They sanctioned the "call to prayer" [Takbir] and the prayers [Azan]; and they issued a proclamation in the town, that every one might practise his own religion. The advent of those people was held to be an act of mercy and bounty from the Almighty. When Kushluk fled, every one who lived in a Musulman town or house, suddenly disappeared, like quicksilver; and the Moghul army went in pursuit of Kushluk. Wherever he halted, they came up behind him and drove him on, like a mad dog, until they reached the frontier of Badakhshán, which is called Darazukhán.