The Nāṣirī Generations 149.2.2

149.2.2

“The world knoweth that I of the universe am king. The lamp of the family of the ’Abbasis am I. ’Ala-ud-Din, Husain, son of Husain, am I, Whose house’s sovereignty be ever enduring! When on the bright bay steed of my dominion I sit, One, to me, will be both the heavens and the earth. Death sports around the point of my spear: Hope follows [as goad] the dust of my troops. I should roam the world through, like unto Sikandar: I should in every city another sovereign place. I was determined on this, that of the vagabonds of Ghaznin I would set a river of blood running like unto the Nil. But they are maudlin old dotards and infants, And my blooming fortune maketh intercession for them. For their own sakes I have granted them their lives, That the granting of their lives may of mine be the bond.”