The Nāṣirī Generations 287.4.7

287.4.7

When the author had returned from that journey, and had again reached the presence of Malik Taj-ud-Din, Binal-Tigin, the latter said: “It is necessary for thee to go a second time, and demand war from the Mulahidah;” but this servant of the state did not consent to set out on a second journey, as he had determined upon undertaking a journey into Hindustan, and entertained a very great predilection for this journey. This refusal on the part of this votary did not meet with the approval of Malik Taj-ud- Din, Binal-Tigin, and he commanded so that they detained him [the author] for forty-three days in the fort of Safhed of Sistan, and prohibited his going beyond the walls, until Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-'Usman, of Khaesar—may he rest in peace!—despatched letters from Ghur to Malik Taj-ud-Din, Binal-Tigin. The author, likewise, composed a poem conformable with the case of his confinement; and, by the favour of the Most High God, he obtained his liberation from that fortress. Five verses of that poem are here given that they may come under the august observation of the SULTAN OF THE SULTANS OF Islam, whose sovereignty be long prolonged! Amin.