The Nāṣirī Generations 244.1.9

244.1.9

Ulugh Khan's affairs became so flourishing, that the whole of the Maliks and Amirs began to be jealous at the freshness of his good fortune, and envy’s disquieting thorn began to prick their minds, but, as Almighty God had willed that he should be greater than the whole [of them], by how much the more the fire of their envy increased, by so much the more did the incense of his prosperity, within the censer of time, diffuse additional perfume: “They endeavour to extinguish the light of God with [the breath of] their mouths, but God rejects aught but the perfection of his light.”—May Almighty God prolong his office of power. and make this servant of the state, Minhaj-i-Saraj, who is the author of this Tabakat, feel due gratitude towards him, for his abundant benefactions combined with respect, for, should a thousand sections of paper be filled with closely written encomiums on his admirable qualities and inestimable virtues, it would be but as a drop in the vast ocean, and not even a single particle from out of the fragrance from the paradise-like flower garden [thereof] would have affected the smelling sense of hearer or reader; and, should a hundred thousand such-like effusions be composed, out of gratitude for the princely countenance of this great lord, at the foot-step of the exalted throne of the king of the sovereigns of the face of the earth — May God perpetuate his dominion and sovereignty!