The Nāṣirī Generations 218.4

218.4

In the way of repayment therefore of debts [of gratitude] due to those renowned Maliks, and more particularly for the mention of the rule of that powerful prince [Ulugh Khan], this Tabakah has been written after the manner of a miscellany, in order that scrutinizers, when they look into these pages, may, according to the benediction for those departed and the invocation for the preservation of those remaining, have the character of every one of them clearly defined upon the page of the mind. In the arrangement also of this Tabakah, some Maliks were earlier, in time, than they appear here, and some have been mentioned later, arising from the period that the author arrived at this Court. May the Most High God preserve the Sultan of Sultans and the Ulugh-i-A’zam, Ulugh Khan-i-Mu’azzam, in the hall of existence to the utmost limits of possibility. Amin!