The Nāṣirī Generations 135.5

135.5

As Almighty God had willed that from that race pious kings and potent sovereigns should arise, He prospered and blessed those tribes so that they attained unto the faith and covenant of Islam; and from the mine of the seed of them the gems of sovereignty were arranged upon the thread of dominion. Some thousands of mosques were founded in place of ancient idol-temples ; and the laws and canons of Islam were promulgated to the very extremity of the region of Hindustan which adjoins that of Chin — the mercy of the Almighty be upon them ! These Sultans likewise acquired slaves, every one of whom spread the carpet of justice upon the surface of the world, and raised palaces of beneficence and munificence ; and, up to this present time, the heir of that sovereignty and successor to the functions of that empire, is the pearl of the oyster-shell of ascendency, out of the ocean of dominion, the Great Sultan, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Abi-l-Muzaffar, Mahmud, son of the Sultan, Kasim-i-Amir-ul-Muminin — the Almighty perpetuate his sovereignty and dominion, and may he long reign !