The Nāṣirī Generations 128.3.6

128.3.6

The Mughal troops, not finding the Sultan in the province of Mazandaran, passed out of it, and entered 'Irak, on which Sultan Muhammad, with the few horsemen who still continued with him, left the island; but he was prostrated with disease of the bowels, and melancholy supervened, and he became quite out of his mind. He urged his son, Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Mang-barni, saying: — “Endeavour to take me to Khwarazm; for from thence was the commencement of our dominion.” These lines, also, he often repeated: — “When men become distracted about their own affairs, Than that, it will be better that the thread of life were sever’d.” When his disease increased, he was totally unable to ride on horseback, and camels were procured for him; and he was placed in a camel-litter, and they sent him off towards Khwarazm. He died on the road, in the year 617 H.: and Sultan Jalal-ud-Din brought his father’s remains to Khwarazm, and buried them by the side of Sultan Takish, his father. Sultan Muhammad’s reign extended over a period of twenty-one years. May the mercy of God and His pardon be on him!