The Nāṣirī Generations 191: SECTION XXI. · ACCOUNT OF THE SHAMSIAH SULTANS IN HIND.

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The frailest of the servants of the Divine threshold, Minhaj-i-Saraj, Jurjani — God grant him the attainment of his wishes! states that, when the eternal will of God, the Most High and Holy, has willed to imprint on the forehead of a servant the signs of dominion and the light of power, and the mother of time becomes pregnant with an embryo of such a character, the gleam [characteristic] of such a burden will shine upon her brow.
When the time of her delivery arrives, and that lord of felicity becomes enveloped in the swaddling of his birth-place joy, at the sight of that birth, becomes manifest in all things; and, from the period of his nativity to the time of his removal from this abode of service to the mansion of bliss, whether in activity or in repose, all his actions will be a source of gladness unto mankind, and of honour to both high and low. If his neck should be placed in the collar of servitude, his master becomes the possessor of affluence; and, if his footsteps venture upon journeys and in travelling stages, he will cause his companions to become the masters of prosperity, as in the case of the Patriarch Yusuf.
When Yusuf was sold to Malik the son of Du’ar, at his invocation, twenty [sons like] pearls befitting a king were strung upon the thread of his line ; and, notwithstanding he came [as a slave] into the dwelling of 'Aziz, he made, in the end, his ['Aziz's] spouse Queen of Misr ; and, forasmuch as the infant in the cradle bore testimony to the purity of his garment’s skirt — "a witness of the family bore testimony" — at length, in his ['Aziz's] service, Yusuf became the Wazir of that kingdom.