The Nāṣirī Generations 94: SECTION XIV. · THE MALIKS OF SIJISTAN AND NIMROZ.

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As this Tabakat is being written in the name of the great Sultan, the king of kings [over] both Turk and 'Ajam, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Abu-l-Muzaffar, Mahmud, son of Sultan I-yal-timish—May his sovereignty endure!—and, as an account of all rulers and their Tabakat is being penned, the author, Minhaj-i-Saraj, Jurjani, would state that he desires, to the extent of his capability, to commit to writing what has come to his hearing, and what he has himself seen respecting the Maliks of Nimroz.
They were able and just monarchs, virtuous, and cherishers of the indigent, whose country, from the Sanjari era up to this time, when the territories of Iran have, through the cruelty and rapine of the infidels of Chin, become ruined, was adorned by the grandeur, the justice, the munificence, and the nobility of mind of those monarchs, and, therefore, the author desires that he himself, and those Maliks, may continue to call forth the favourable mention of those under whose notice this [account] may come, and, that a benediction may be offered for the sovereign of the present time.
The origin and lineage of these rulers from the previous Amirs, did not seem clearly deducible in History.