حبیب السیر 29.5

29.5

Among the eloquent men, adorners of discourse, and among poets abounding in eloquence, Nasru-lla bin 'Abdu-l Hamid bin Abu-l M'ali and Saiyid Hasan Ghaznivi were contemporaries with Bahram Shah. Nasru-lla wrote the Kalila and Damna, in the style which is now current among mankind, and dedicated it to this Sultan ; and Saiyid Hasan, on the day of Bahram's accession, composed an ode, the first line of which is as follows : " A voice came from the seventh Heaven, That Bahram Shah was the king of the world." In the Tdrikh-i Guzida it is written, that when Saiyid Hasan went on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Muhammad, the best of men (and upon whom let there be peace and benedictions!), he made a translation of a panegyric which had been written in honour of his Holiness, and read the verses before the Prophet's splendid sepulchre. When he arrived at this verse, viz.— "I have not boasted of being among your descendants, But have only made a slight encomium, oh, my beloved! Send me out from thy presence a robe of honour," —a hand holding a cloak stretched itself out from the vault, and said, "Take it, O my son." But God knows everything!