The Nāṣirī Generations 244.7.6

244.7.6

On intimation of this reaching his august hearing, Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam represented for the consideration of the sublime Court, that it was advisable that the royal standards of the kingdom, conjoined with victory and triumph, should move from the capital. It was the year 656 H., and, on the 2nd of the month of Muharram of that year, the sublime standards, under an auspicious horoscope, moved out from the capital, and the Sultan’s tent was set up outside, in sight of the city of Dihli. In consultation with Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, mandates were at once issued and despatched to all parts of the country, to the great Maliks and Lords of the kingdom, and on the confines, directing them all to turn their faces towards the capital, and, in the greatest possible state of efficiency, present themselves [with their contingents] at the sublime threshold. On the 10th of the month of Muharram, within the tent of sovereignty, which in victory and triumph be ever set up, and the ropes of its prosperity be secured with the pegs of stability! — this suppliant, by command, delivered an exhortation, with the object of stimulating to holy warfare, and the merit of fighting against infidels, and efforts to defend the glories of Islam, and serve the sublime Court, by obeying the orders of the legitimate commanders — May God increase the execution of His commands !