The Nāṣirī Generations 110.1

110.1

Sultan Salah-ud-Din was a great and illustrious monarch, and he waged holy wars and undertook many religious expeditions; and the Kaisar of Rum and the infidel Farangs, he encountered in many conflicts. It was most probable, that in all his doings, and throughout the whole of his career, the sword of heavenly success and divine victory attended him. The territories of Sham, Kuds [the Holy Land], Misr, Hijaz, and Yaman, all came under his rule. As the Most High God willed that, at this, the end of time, His true religion should be manifested, and that the empire of Islam should be victorious, from every illustrious family He made choice of one sovereign, His servant, and, by means of the key of holy war waged by him, caused the gates of conquest of the countries of the infidels to be thrown open. In the same manner as in the countries of the East He distinguished Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, Shansabi [Shansabani], Ghuri, by great victories in the country of Hindustan, as far as the boundaries of Chin; in the territories of the West, and in the country of Sham, He made Sultan Salah-ud-Din, Yusuf, the Kurd, exalted by the conquests of the territories of Maghrab, and of the Afranj, so that great victories were achieved by him.