The Nāṣirī Generations 149.3.2

149.3.2

This anecdote has been already related in the account of Sultan Sanjar’s reign. The latter gave him back again the throne of Ghur, and he commanded that stores, treasure, all his herds of horses and camels and cattle, and flocks of sheep, his own personal property, should be made over to ’Ala-ud-Din ; and Sultan Sanjar said : — ’Ala-ud-Din, thou art in the condition of a brother to me. Return, and take all these things — cattle and treasure — along with thee, and remove them to the country of Ghur. If the divine decree should in such wise will, that this host of Ghuzz should be overcome, and we should obtain the victory, when these things shall be demanded of thee, send them back to me ; but otherwise, if it should turn out that my dominion shall have come to an end, and the thread of the empire’s regularity shall have been severed, it is far better that these things should remain with thee than that they should fall into the hands of the Ghuzz.