The Nāṣirī Generations 242.8

242.8

After some time, when, in the month of Rabi’-ul-Akhir, 653 H., Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, son of ’Ali [the Ghuri, who was the Lieutenant of the kingdom] — May he rest in peace! — departed to the eternal mansion, the territory and city of Mirat was placed in the Amir-i-Hajib’s charge, to the skirt of the mountains of Bandiaran. During some years he reduced under his sway those confines and districts, and he took possession of the country within the mountain territory of Bandiaran as far as Rurki, and Mia-pur, and extorted tribute, and overthrew Ranas and independent [Hindu] tribes, and reduced them to subjection, until the year 656 H., when weakness gained the ascendancy over his dear body and delicate form, and his intestines became swollen. Through excessive modesty and bashfulness, he did not make known the whole of his disease to any one, and, for a period of some months, he endured affliction; and, as the appointed time was come, on Sunday, the 20th of the month of Rajab, 657 H., he transmitted his blessed soul, on the couch of pardon, attended by the escort of sincere piety, to the presence of majesty and nearness of glory. May the Most High God keep in His protection the sovereign of the present time, the Sultan of Sultans, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, for the sake of His most illustrious prophet, Muhammad!