[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) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt) › 23.2 # التاريخ اليميني 23.2 English (machine translation) 23.2 - **Language:** English ### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.2) 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. - [Previous: 23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.1) - [Next: 23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.3) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23) ## Translations (1) - [Tárikh Yamíní (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-elliot.8) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, English ## Linked texts (1) - [التاريخ اليميني](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.23.2) — Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-ʿUtbī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.23.2) · Pramāṇa