[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 293.1.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 293.1.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 293.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [293.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.293.1.1) Hulāū, the Mughal, after he had satisfied his heart on the matter of Baghdād, moved towards Halab, Mayyā-city, but he refused to come; and upon him is verified the saying: ‘We seized it with a frightful violence’ \[Ḳur’ān: lvi., 88\]. We said to him, ‘We have pressed thee to submit thyself to us. If thou wilt, then wilt thou find peace and happiness’ \[Ibid. lxxiii., 16\]: ‘if thou refusest, thou wilt experience shame and misfortune. Do not act like the animal which, with his feet, discovered the instrument of his death \[and heeded not\], or as he, who, with his own hand, cut the partition of his own nose. Thou wilt then be of the number of those whose works are vain, whose efforts in this present life have been wrongly directed, and who imagine they do the work which is right’ \[Ibid. xviii., 103-4\]. Nothing is impossible to God. ‘Peace be with the man who follows the way whither God directs’!” \[Ibid. xxxv. 18\]. Soon after the events related above Arbil was invested. - [Previous: 292.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.292.7) - [Next: 293.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.293.1.2) - [Up: 293.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.293.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.293.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.293.1.1) · Pramāṇa