التاريخ اليميني 19.94

19.94

So Sijistān became clear for the Sultan: the eyes of sedition were stilled, the stars of rancour fell, the hopes of the Khalafīs there of partisanship and faction were cut off, and their eyes were lowered from leaping up and seizing power. The Sultan returned to Ghazna, his affair resplendent, his standing high; God had favoured him in what he sought, aimed his arrows straight at the goal, and made him famous for taking the virgin city, appropriating the splendid kingdom, ascending the summit of hope, and clothing the community in glory and loftiness. Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī recited to me, on the conquest of Sijistān, from an ode of his own: