تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.90.1

13.90.1

وكان الوزير سليمان مانايك قد بعث إلي أن أتزوج بنته، فبعثت إلى الوزير جمال الدين مستأذنا في ذلك فعاد إلي الرسول وقال: لم يعجبه ذلك، وهو يحب أن يزوجك بنته إذا انقضت عدتها، فأبيت أنا ذلك وخفت من شؤمها لأنه مات تحتها زوجان قبل الدخول! وأصابتني أثناء ذلك حمى مرضت بها، ولا بد لكل من يدخل تلك الجزيرة أن يحم ، فقوى عزمي على الرحلة عنها، فبعث بعض الحلي بالودع، واكتريت مركبا أسافر فيه لبنجالة.

The vizier Sulaymān Mānāyak had sent to me proposing that I marry his daughter. I sent to the vizier Jamāl al-Dīn asking his permission for this, and the messenger came back to me and said, 'It did not please him; he would like to marry you to his own daughter when her waiting period is over.' But I refused that, fearing her ill luck, since two husbands had died while married to her before consummation! Meanwhile I was struck by a fever and fell ill with it — everyone who enters that island inevitably gets fever — and my resolve to leave it grew stronger. I sold some of the ornaments for cowries and hired a ship in which to travel to Banjāla.