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He took offence on behalf of religion at leaving him alone despite the enormity of his evil and the hideousness of his affair. He sought guidance of God, the Chooser, in his intent, to bring him to repentance and to give precedence to God's judgement in falling upon him. He ordered the outlying forces gathered, the skirts tucked up, and horses massed upon horses. There joined him those volunteers of the Muslims for whom God had sealed good works and whom He had honoured from eternity with one of the two best things. He set out with them toward Multan when spring surged with the torrents of the rain-stars and the rivers overflowed with surplus moisture, and the Sīḥūn and its sister rivers were impassable to their riders and their courses hard for their people. So the Sultan asked Andpāl, the great one of Hind, to grant him passage through his kingdom to his destination; but he refused and rebelled, pride seized him in his baseness, and he declined and held firm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Intelligence reached the Sultán of the acts committed by the ruler of Múltán, Abí-l futúh, namely, respecting the impurity of his religion, the seditious designs of his heart, and the evidence of his evil doings, and his endeavours to make proselytes of the inhabitants of his country. The Sultán zealous for the Muhammadan religion, thought it a shame to allow him to retain his government while he practised such wickedness and disobedience and he beseeched the assistance of a gracious God in bringing him to repentance, and attacking him with that design in view. > He then issued orders for the assembling of armies from among the Musulmáns for the purpose of joining him in this holy expedition, — those on whom God had set his seal and selected for the performance of good deeds, and obtaining either victory or martyrdom. He departed with them towards Multán in the spring, when the rivers were swollen with the rain, and the Indus and other rivers prevented the passage of the cavalry, and offered difficulties to his companions. The Sultán desired of Anápál, the chief of Hind, that he would allow him to march through his territory, but Anápal would not consent, and offered opposition, which resulted in his discomfiture. The Sultan, consequently, thought it expedient to attack Rai Anápál first, notwithstanding his power, in his jungles, to bow down his broad neck, to cut down the trees of his jungles, to destroy every single thing he possessed, and thus to obtain the fruit of two paradises by this double conquest. > So he stretched out upon him the hand of slaughter, imprisonment, pillage, depopulation, and fire, and hunted him from ambush to ambush, into which he was followed by his subjects, like "merchants of Hazramaut, who are never without their sheets." The spears were tired of penetrating the rings of the coats of mail, the swords became blunt by the blows on the sides, and the Sultan pursued the Rai over hill and dale, over the soft and hard ground of his territory, and his followers either became a feast to the rapacious wild beasts of the passes and plains, or fled in distraction to the neighbourhood of Kashmir. > When Abú-l futúh, the ruler of Múltán, heard what had happened to the chief of Hind, notwithstanding all his power and the lofty walls of his fort, and his shining sword, and when he began to measure their relative strength, and considered how Anápal, a much greater potentate than himself, had been subdued, he looked upon himself, as compared with the Sultan, as a ravine in comparison with the top of a mountain. He, therefore, determined with all expedition to load all his property on elephants, and carry it off to Sarandip, and he left Multan empty for the Sultdn to do with it as he chose. > The Sultan marched towards Multan, beseeching God's aid against those who had introduced their neologies into religion and had disparaged it. The inhabitants of the place were blind in their errors, and desirous of extinguishing the light of God with their breath, so the Sultdn invested Multdn, took it by assault, treated the people with severity, and levied from them twenty thousand thousand dirams with which to respite their sins. Then the reports of the Sultan's conquests spread over distant countries, and over the salt sea as far even as Egypt ; Sind and her sister (Hind) trembled at his power and vengeance ; his celebrity exceeded that of Alexander the Great, and heresy (ilhad), rebellion, and enmity, were suppressed. > — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, Tárikh Yamíní (extracts) ### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.2) ورأى السلطان غرة الرأي في دهمة ذلك الخطب أن يبدأ به على عزة جانبه، \[154 أ\] فيذل صليفه ، ويبيح غريفه ، ويمزق لفه ولفيفه، جامعا بين غزوتين ، وقاطفا جني الجنتين؛ فبسط عليه أيدي القتل والإيثاق، والنهب والإرهاق، والهدم والإحراق، يلجئه من مضيق إلى مضيق، وينفيه من طريق إلى طريق، طاويا عليه بلاده طي التجار بحضرموت برودا ، إلى أن ضجرت القنا من هتك حلق الدروع ، وسكرت الظبى من رشف علق الأحشاء والضلوع، وركب أثره في أغوار دياره، وأعماق رباعه، يتجسس دماث السهول، وقضض الأماعز ، ويقري عليه وحوش الجو بين ضيق المداخل ورحب المفاوز، حتى أضمرته قشمير . ولما سمع أبو الفتوح والي الملتان بما جرى من أمر عظيم الهند، وهو الوجيه الرفيع، والسد المنيع، والسيف الصنيع، قاس باعه بشبره، وذراعه بفتره، وأيقن أن رعن الجبال لا تطال بهضبات القور ، وزرق البزاة لا تنال ببغاث الطيور، فعجل نقل أمواله على ظهور فيلته إلى سرنديب ، وأخلى الملتان للسلطان يفعل فيها ما يشاء، فثنى العنان إليها مستعينا بالله تعالى على من أحدث في دينه، \[154 ب\] أو حدث بتوهينه، فإذا أهلها في ضلالتهم يخبطون، وفي طغيانهم يعمهون، يريدون أن يطفؤا نور الله بأفواههم ويأبى الله إلا أن يتم نوره ولو كره الكافرون ، فضرب عليهم بجران المحاصرة ، وكلكل المناجزة والمناحرة ، جزا للغلاصم، وبتكا للأيدي من المعاصم، وإرصادا لهم بالفاقرات القواصم، حتى افتتحها عنوة، وشحنها عقابا وسطوة، وألزمهم عشرين ألف ألف درهم يرحضون بها دنس استصعابهم ، ويدرأون عن أنفسهم هجنة استشرائهم وإبائهم . > In the darkness of that crisis the Sultan judged it the brightest course to begin with him, for all the strength of his position, \[154a\] so as to humble his arrogance, lay open his preserves, and tear apart his host and its rabble, thus combining two campaigns and gathering the fruit of both gardens. So he stretched over him the hands of slaughter and fettering, plunder and oppression, demolition and burning, driving him from one narrow pass to another and chasing him from road to road, folding up his lands upon him as the merchants of Ḥaḍramawt fold their cloaks, until the spears grew weary of rending the rings of coats of mail and the sword-blades grew drunk with sipping the blood of entrails and ribs. He followed his track into the hollows of his territory and the depths of his dwellings, searching out the soft plains and the stony rough ground, feasting the wild beasts of the air upon him between narrow entrances and wide deserts, until Kashmīr swallowed him up. When Abū al-Futūḥ, governor of Multān, heard what had befallen the great one of Hind — that eminent and lofty man, that impregnable barrier, that well-wrought sword — he measured his fathom against his span and his cubit against his finger-breadth, and was certain that the peaks of mountains are not matched by low hillocks, and that grey falcons are not reached by weak birds. So he hastened to carry his wealth on the backs of his elephants to Sarandīb, and left Multān empty for the Sultan to do with as he wished. The Sultan turned his rein towards it, seeking the help of God Most High against one who had introduced innovation into His religion \[154b\] or spoken to weaken it. He found its people stumbling in their error and wandering blindly in their transgression, 'desiring to extinguish the light of God with their mouths, but God refuses except to perfect His light, though the unbelievers dislike it.' He bore down on them with the full weight of siege and the breast of close combat and slaughter, cutting throats and severing hands from wrists and lying in wait for them with back-breaking calamities, until he took it by force, filled it with punishment and might, and imposed on them twenty thousand thousand dirhams with which to wash away the filth of their recalcitrance and ward off from themselves the disgrace of their insolence and refusal. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.3) وعبر ذكره- بما آتاه الله من نصرة الدين، وإنارة معالم اليقين- عرض البحر إلى ديارات مصر، حتى درست بها مقاماته التي لم يرو مثلها عن ذي القرنين، إلى حيث انتهى من أمر السدين ، فارتعدت فرائص السند وأخواتها، حذار بطشه وانتقامه، وخفتت بها نجوى الإلحاد، وطمست صوى الغي والعناد، فلله أبو تمام حيث يقول: > His fame — through what God granted him in aiding the religion and illuminating the landmarks of certainty — crossed the breadth of the sea to the lands of Egypt, until his feats there became a lesson of a kind not related even of Dhū al-Qarnayn, up to the point he reached in the matter of the two barriers. The shoulders of Sind and its sister lands trembled for fear of his violence and vengeance; the whispering of heresy there fell silent and the waymarks of error and obstinacy were effaced. How fine is Abū Tammām when he says: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (2) - [Tárikh Yamíní (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-elliot.8) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.1-3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.1-3) · Pramāṇa