The Nāṣirī Generations 225.9

225.9

When the throne of sovereignty acquired additional glory from [the accession of] the Sultan-i-Mu'azzam, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, in the year 644 H., Malik Tughril-i-Tughan Khan proceeded into Awadh; and, a short time afterwards, on the night of Friday, the end of the month of Shawwal of that year, he passed to the Almighty's mercy. Of destiny's wonderful decrees one was this, that, enmity and contest having arisen between Malik Tughril-i-Tughan Khan and Malik Tamur Khan-i-Kiran, and each having seized the other's territory, Tamur Khan should have died in Lakhanawati, and Tughan Khan in Awadh [the same night], in such wise that neither of the two, in this world, was aware of the other’s death. On this subject, that prince of mortals of the great and of the less, Sharf-ud-Din, the Balkhi, composed a verse:— On Friday, the end of the month entitled Shawwal, In the year, according to the ’Arab era, kha, mim, dal, Was Tamur Khan’s and Tughan Khan’s march from the world, This [one] at the beginning of the night went, that at its close. Doubtless, their meeting will have taken place in the Court of the King of Glory in the everlasting mansion in the other world. The Almighty’s mercy be upon them!