[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [History](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh) › [التاريخ اليميني](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini) › 23.3 # التاريخ اليميني 23.3 التاريخ اليميني 23.3 - **Language:** Arabic ### [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: > 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) - [Previous: 23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.2) - [Next: 23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.4) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23) ## 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.23.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.3) · Pramāṇa