The Nāṣirī Generations 183.1.1

183.1.1

The beneficent Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, the second Hatim, was a high-spirited and open-handed monarch. The Almighty God had endowed him with intrepidity and beneficence, the like of which, in his day, no sovereign of the world, either in the east or west, possessed; and, when the Most High God desireth to make manifest a servant of His in magnificence and glory in the hearts of mankind, He endows him with these attributes of intrepidity and beneficence, and makes him especially distinguished, both by friend and foe, for bounteousness of generosity and the display of martial prowess, like as this beneficent and victorious monarch was, so that, by the liberality and the enterprise of him, the region of Hindustan became full of friends and empty of enemies. His gifts were bestowed by hundreds of thousands and his slaughters likewise were by hundreds of thousands, like as that master of eloquence, the Imam, Baha-ud-Din, Ushi observes in praise of this beneficent sovereign:— Truly, the bestowal of laks thou in the world didst bring: Thy hand brought the mine's affairs to a desperate state. The blood-filled mine's heart, through envy of thy hand, Therefore produced the ruby as a pretext [within it].”