The Nāṣirī Generations 165.1

165.1

Sultan Baha-ud-Din, Sam, was a very great and august monarch, and was just and enlightened. He was the patronizer of learned men, and the dispenser of equity; and, in his day, the whole of the learned ’Ulama were unanimous, that there was no Musalman sovereign who was a greater cherisher of learned men, for this reason, that his intercourse, his communion, and his converse, were exclusively with ’Ulama of judgment and discrimination. He was, on both sides, a Shansabani and his mother was the Hurrah-i-Jalali, the daughter of Sultan Baha-ud-Din, Sam, the sister of the two Sultans, and older than either of them. Kazi Taj-ud-Din, Zawzani, who was the most eloquent man of his day, [upon one occasion] was delivering a discourse within his [Baha-ud-Din’s] palace, and, during the invocation, the Sultan said: “What adornment can I give to the bride of the realm upon the face of whose empire two such moles exist, one Ghiyas-ud-Din and the other Mu’izz-ud-Din!” The Almighty’s mercy be upon them all!