التاريخ اليميني 46.11

46.11

وظل المخاذيل يتنامسون بينهم وقد عاينوا سيوفهم نابية، وسيوف أهل الحق عليهم ماضية، وحملاتهم واهية، وحملات أهل الدين أولى وثانية. ما هؤلاء من جنس الأنس ولا من زمر البشر، هيهات إن وقع الحديد ليجز في الجبال، ولا حز له في هؤلاء الأبطال، حتى إذا مثل لهم شخص الطغيان في صورة الخذلان، تواصوا باقتحام ما وراءهم من زاخرة المياه يظنون أنها تقيهم بأس الانتقام، وتحميهم كأس الحمام، أو لا يرون أن الكفر لا يهدي سبيله، وأن الله يردي بكثير ما يحيي قليله! لا جرم إن صفائح الماء وافقت صفاح الدهماء، فأوسعوا قتلا وأسارا، وأغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا. ولعل عدد القتلى وعدد الغرقى يزيد على خمسين ألفا أصبحوا طعما للنسور والضبعان، وأقواتا للتماسيح والحيتان.

Our swords which in breaking could pass through a rock, and make a mere tale of brilliant lightning, are cut off from cutting them, and glance away from their shoulders." Perhaps these wretches had placed themselves in the straight road to destruction, and recognized not the truth that such (fatuity) is the sign of rebels and deniers, and the marked path of their wickedness and undutifulness. They threw themselves then simultaneously into the river, in order that the abundant waters and powerful current might be the means of their preservation and safety ; and they knew not that, although water is the germ of life and the principle of vivification, Heaven's decree can render it the cause of destruction and ruin. This, however, the warrior comrades and eminent army of guides (to truth) made them know, by cutting off the fountain of infidelity and intercepting the rivulet of idolatry, so that some came to the sword and some were drowned in the water. Five thousand perished and went to hell, and Kaljam drew his dagger, killed his wife, and then, ripping himself up, became a partner of his forces on their road to hell. Of their wealth 185 head of elephants, with other kinds of profit and plunder, came to the Sultan. In that place, in the city, there was a place of worship of the Indian people ;

They found a road (which led) from the upper castle, and when the green sea struck out, "Allah Akbar," they stood against the head of the Kafirs, and twisted them round their scimitars, and cast the troops upon the ground. They stood firm for a time, and made charges from their own position, when the rain of swords reached them, and the heavenly decree preserved the people of Islam from the edge of their scimitars and the point of their spears (Verse) "The swords of Hind were blunted by their strokes, "And when they cut our necklaces saved our lives." At length it became known that all events are in the grasp of destiny, and that the well-formed scimitar, although its force may be extreme and its edge sharp, is but a subject of the command and vassal of the decree of fate, if it penetrate to the Muslim's blood; and herein destiny exhibited its usual blessedness, but if it had been weak it would have been the cause of some wonder-working providence, and for the display of some miracle. These despicable ones were astonished; and, when they saw the indications of the power of these champions of religion, and were witnesses of their arms and appurtenances, they said one to another, "This body of men is not of the race of mankind or of the human family !