1870.] Translations from the Tdrikh i Firitz SMhi. 49 



plains and deserts. From the excessive rigour of his rule, the good 

 and evil, favorable and unfavorable transactions of the inhabitants 

 in the capital, as well as the affairs of the whole of the residents 

 in the provinces, were never unknown to him. The hearts of all his 

 subjects both high and low were deeply impressed with awe and re- 

 verence for his severe rule and harsh disposition, and the royal seed* 

 having settled in the breasts of the public generally, the roots of his 

 empire had sunk deep. 



It never crossed the minds of people on beholding this state of 

 things, that the sovereignty would pass away from his house so spee- 

 dily, and revert to another family ; and when by the aid of the acci- 

 dental luck and good fortune, which attended him, the measures of his 

 government turned out satisfactorily, and his enterprises, both preme- 

 ditated and unpremeditated, were accomplished as speedily as he could 

 wish, worldly-minded persons, who consider greatness to depend 

 upon the attainment of worldly prosperity, and the success of one's 

 designs, attributed the favorable results of Sultan 'Alauddin's mea- 

 sures to his consummate ability, and imagined that the expres- 

 sions which used to fall from his lips regarding the execution of state 

 affairs, and the victories and triumphs of his armies, proceeded from 

 inspiration. Those, however, learned in civil and religious law, and 

 versed in the irresistible decrees of G-od Almighty, [and those] whose 

 far-seeing judgment penetrates the realities of things, and whose con- 

 clusions are more certain that the revolution of the heavens, and the 

 immobility of the earth, used to remark on beholding the frequency of 

 Sultan 'Alauddin's victories and triumphs, and the constantly success- 

 ful issue of his undertakings, that every triumph and victory which 

 accrued to the standard of Islam in his age, and every undertaking of his 

 and of all his subjects which turned out well, and every measure of ad- 

 vantage and improvement which was apparent throughout the kingdom, 

 arose from the virtues and benedictions of Shaikhul Islam Nizamuddin 

 of Ghiaspur. He, (they said) is the beloved and chosen of God, and on 

 his head the divine grace, bounty, and beneficence is being constantly 

 showered ; and in consequence of the continual favours that are pour- 



* Verbally, the hearts of men were generally ('dmatan) settled regarding his 

 rule, and the roots of his kingdom which he himself had caused to sink (into 

 the hearts of men), on heholding them (the roots), it never crossed, &c. This 

 is one of Raranf's bad sentences. 



