التاريخ اليميني 25.7

25.7

He turned back to Ghazna under the warrant of victory and triumph, in the company of ease and wealth. When his staff touched the ground of rest there, he ordered the courtyard of his palace to be spread with those jewels: pearls like piercing stars, which had escaped the hands of the piercers; rubies like embers before they die down, or wine after it has congealed; emeralds like the tips of myrtle in freshness, or chamomile leaves in lushness; and pieces of diamond like pomegranates in size [164b] and weight. Delegations from the outlying lands gathered to behold what the books of the ancients do not record having been gathered for any of the mightiest chiefs, or the kings of the Persians and the Byzantines. Present at that spectacle were the envoys of Ṭughān Khān, king of the Turks and brother of Ilek, and they saw what eyes had never seen, what conjecture had never reached, and what Qārūn had never possessed: the handiwork of God, whose command, when He wills a thing, is but to say to it "Be", and it is.