تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.8.4

11.8.4

فركب كل واحد منهما في مركب منفردا عن جيوشه والتقيا في وسط النهر فقبل السلطان رجل أبيه، واعتذر له فقال له أبوه: قد وهبتك ملكي ووليتك، وبايعه وأراد الرجوع لبلاده، فقال له ابنه: لا بد لك من الوصول إلى بلادي فمضى معه إلى دهلي ، ودخل القصر وأقعده أبوه على سرير الملك، ووقف بين يديه وسمي ذلك اللقاء الذي كان بينهما بالنهر لقاء السعدين، لما كان فيه من حقن الدماء وتواهب الملك والتجافي عن المنازعة، وأكثرت الشعراء في ذلك، وعاد ناصر الدين إلى بلاده. فمات بها بعد سنين وترك بها ذرية منهم غياث الدين بها دور الذي أسره السلطان تغلق، وأطلقه ابنه محمد بعد وفاته، واستقام الملك لمعز الدين أربعة أعوام بعد ذلك كانت كالأعياد . رأيت بعض من أدركها يصف خيراتها ورخص أسعارها وجود معز الدين وكرمه، وهو الذي بنى الصومعة بالصحن الشمالي من جامع دهلي، ولا نظير لها في البلاد.

So each of them boarded a boat alone, apart from his armies, and they met in the middle of the river. The sultan kissed his father's foot and asked his pardon, and his father said to him: "I have given you my kingdom and appointed you over it," and swore allegiance to him. He wished to return to his own lands, but his son said to him: "You must come to my country." So he went with him to Dihlī and entered the palace, and his father seated him on the royal throne and stood before him. That meeting between them on the river was called "the meeting of the two auspicious stars," because of the bloodshed it spared, their giving the kingdom to one another, and their refraining from strife; and the poets composed much about it. Nāṣir al-Dīn returned to his lands and died there some years later, leaving descendants there, among them Ghiyāth al-Dīn Bahādur, whom Sultan Tughluq took captive and whom his son Muḥammad released after his death. The kingdom remained firmly with Muʿizz al-Dīn for four years after that, which were like festivals. I saw some who had lived through them describe their prosperity, the cheapness of prices, and the generosity and liberality of Muʿizz al-Dīn. It was he who built the minaret in the northern court of the congregational mosque of Dihlī, which has no equal in the land.