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day and nigiit to pray to God in tliis wise, and with a hidden 
meaning, saying, “ Oh Lord God, in the battle between the Par- 
waris and Glia zi Malik, let him who is the friend of the faith of 
Islam prevail.” And it came to pass that their prayers were heard, 
and there was granted to Ghazi Malik victory, because it was he 
who was fighting for Islam. Then those two Captains, who knew 
not what it was that they had undertaken, but were ignorant 
and void of experience, and who were fighting in an evil cause, 
arrived before Sarsuti. But they were unable to take Sarsuti 
out of the hands of the horsemen of Ghazi Malik, and unwilling 
to encamp before it and besiege it. And because they were fools 
and without experience, they hastened on, and left behind them 
Sarsuti in the hands of the enemy. Full of vain confidence and 
conceit, like striplings in the presence of the mighty ones, being 
blinded with presumption, they pressed on to give battle to the 
terrible leader who had many times utterly discomfited and over¬ 
thrown the bands of the Mughuls. But Ghazi Malik, about the 
time that those foolish Captains had begun to march from Delhi, 
called to him from Ucha, Malik Bahrain Aibah, who was of the 
faithful, who came and joined himself to Ghazi Malik at Deo- 
balpur, bringing with him horsemen and footmen. And when it 
was told to Ghazi Malik, the soldier of Islam, and the scourge of 
the infidel and the heretic, that the renegade brother of Khusrau 
Khan, and (Jufi Khan, the ignorant ones, were hastening to meet 
him from Sarsuti, he gathered round him his friends, and his 
generals, and his Captains, and with his host departed from Deo- 
balpiir; and passing by the town of Dalili, and crossing over 
the river, he came and encamped before the enemy; and, on the 
second day, the armies drew up over against each other: and God 
protected the righteous, and there was thrown over the standard of 
Ghazi Malik the shadow of the favour of God; so that at the first 
shock, the ranks of those rebellious ones were broken and over¬ 
thrown, and the insignia of royalty, with the battle-axe of the 
renegade brother of Khusrau Khan, and the elephants, and the 
horses, and the treasure, fell into the hands of Ghazi Malik. And 
of the leaders and captains of the rebel army, some were slain 
and wounded, and many were taken captive. But the two young men 
