The Nāṣirī Generations 196.1

196.1

Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah, was a beneficent sovereign, of handsome exterior, was endowed with gentleness and humanity to perfection, and in bountifulness and liberality he was a second Hatim. His mother, Shah Turkan, was a Turkish hand-maid, and the head [woman] of all the Sultan’s haram, and great was the bounty, benevolence, and charity, of that Malikah, towards ’Ulama, Sayyids, priests, and recluses. In the year 625 H. Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah, obtained the fief of Buda’un, and a green canopy of state, and the ’Ain-ul-Mulk, Husain-i-Ash’ari, who was [had been ?] Wazir of Malik [Sultan] Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jah, at this time, became the Wazir of Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah. When Sultan Shams-ud-Din returned to the capital, Dihli, from Gwaliyur, after the capture of that fortress and country, the territory of Lohor, which had been the seat of government of the Khusrau Maliki [dynasty], was conferred upon Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah; and, on Sultan Shams-ud-Din's return from his last expedition, from the river Sind and Banian, he brought along with him, to the capital, his son Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah, for the people had their eyes upon him, since, after [the late] Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, he was the eldest of Sultan Shams-ud-Din's sons.