The Nāṣirī Generations 258.1.11

258.1.11

He pushed on until he came up with him, and told reliable persons that the Chingiz Khan, after that he had possessed himself of Tamghaj, and had brought it under his sway, and, for a period of four years, had caused great sedition and shedding of blood, saw one night, in a dream, that he was binding a turban of immense length about his head, so much so, that, from the vast length of the turban, and the labour of binding it, he began to grow fatigued after, in his interminable task, he had become like unto a great corn stack. When he awoke from his sleep, he was relating his dream to every one of his confidants, and the men of wisdom who were about him, but not one among them could interpret it in a manner to satisfy his mind, until one of his confidants said: ‘The turban is part of the costume of the merchants who are in the habit of coming into this part from different directions of the west, and a party of them has arrived from ’Arabia. It Is necessary to summon them in order that the interpretation may be obtained from these persons.’ In accordance with that advice, they were called in order to interpret it.