The Nāṣirī Generations 278.10

278.10

The following day, when the inhabitants of the city and fortress of Lohor, and the Mughal forces, became aware of Malik Kara-Kush’s evacuation of the place, and of his flight, the hearts of the former entirely broke, and the Mughals became still more bold; and they captured the city. Conflicts arose in every quarter of it, and the Musalmans fought continuously with the infidels; but two bands of Musalmans, in that disaster, girded up their lives like their waists, and firmly grasped the sword, and, up to the latest moment that a single pulsation remained in their dear bodies, and they could move, they continued to wield the sword and to send Mughals to hell, until the time when both bodies, after fighting gallantly for a long period against the infidels, attained the felicity of martyrdom. One of that [band of] heroes was Ak-Sunkar, the seneschal of Lohor, who, with his dependents, in combat, and in conflict, surpassed, a thousand times, Rustam-i-Dastan ; and the other hero was Din-dar Muhammad, the Amir-i-Akhur [of Lohor], who, along with his sons and dependents — May the Almighty reward them ! — on that day, waged holy-warfare, as by the tenets of the faith enjoined, and fought against the unbelievers in such manner as if the purified soul of ’Ali-i-Murtaza — May God be gracious to him! — in concert with the whole of the prophets and apostles, were showering blessings upon him from the garden of paradise.