The Nāṣirī Generations 200: VII. US-SULTAN-UL-A'ZAM UL-MU'AZZAM, NASIR-UD-DUNYA WA UD-DIN, ABU-L-MUZAFFAR-I-MAHMUD SHAH, SON OF THE SULTAN, KASIM-I-AMIR-UL-MUMININ.

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The birth of the Sultan-i-Mu'azzam, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, took place at the Kasr-Bagh [the Garden Castle] of Dihli, in the year 626 H., and, as his birth took place after the decease of the august Malik, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah on whom be peace! — at the seat of government of the august Sultan Shams-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, I-yal-timish — The Almighty illumine his tomb! — this sovereign [Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah] — May his sovereignty long continue! — was distinguished by the title and name of the [late] eldest son [of the Sultan]. His mother [with her infant] was sent to the Kasr [Castle] at the town of Luni, so that there he was brought up in the hall of dominion and the lap of sovereignty, and, thank God! the foster-mother of the Most High Creator’s grace nourished him in such wise that he became endowed with all laudable qualities, and from the breasts of humanity he imbibed the milk of benevolence to such degree that all his affairs and all his deeds became the means of the stability of his kingdom, and the glory of his sovereignty!
In every matter which becomes unfolded to illustrious monarchs in their old age, after the experiences and incidents of time, all such matters — indeed, twice as much — became realized and conceived in the auspicious constitution and august soul of this monarch of blooming prospects, of Saturn[-like] throne, in excellence a Jupiter, in sternness a Mars, in mien a Sun, in beauty a Venus, in intelligence a Mercury, in majesty a Moon in the outset of its youth and the morning of its existence, in firmness, steadfastness, and sedateness, like Bu-Kais and Hira, and in liberality and beneficence [he] became the envied of ’Umman’s [pearl-giving] sea; and the most excellent service is that of that sublime Court — May it never experience wane, and may its grandeur ever increase!
Every one of the learned [personages] of the realm, and eminent men of the kingdom, have composed benedictions and panegyrics [in his praise], and particles of those odours they have threaded on the string of recital and writing; and this frail one, who is the servant of this court of glory and altar of felicity, by way of felicitation, has composed some poetry and prose. Of these poetical [compositions], one, after the manner of a Kasidah and the other, in the manner of a mulamma' strophe, have been inscribed in these pages, in order that, when the notice of observers may glance over them, they may utter a prayer for the sovereign of Islam, and invoke a blessing on the author of them.
[These fulsome poems may be judged of from what is foregoing, and still more so from what follows, and need scarcely be inserted here].