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1. Blessed be God, in the time of Naciruddunya w addin Shah Mali- 
m u d, son of the righteous Sha h I b r a h f m [of Jaunpur], 
2. The hero of the world, the refuge of the kingdom, the noble chief, who through 
the mercy of the Lord of the Universe has found grace to do good, 
3. Built this Jami’ Masjid in such a way, that on earth the arch of its structure 
dwells together with the moon and the fish.* 
4. Its pulpit and niche, from the excess of the loftiness of (their) dignity, have 
received such a lustre that even the Ruh ul Amin (the warden of Paradise) has 
approved (of them). 
5. And from the upper world, the call comes continually down (to earth), 1 This 
is the garden of Eden, enter it (and live in it) for ever.’ 
6 . Wednesday, the 27th of the month of fasting (Ramazan) of the year 859 is 
the date of its erection (14-tli September, 1455, A. D.). 
7 Ahmad (the Prophet) sincerely ( ba-jan) desires to protect this religious 
building for the sake of the pure spirit of Shaikh Sharaf u 1-h a q waddi n.f 
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deep, that it touches the fish, upon which the earth is supposed to rest. 
t The metre is as bad as the poetry. To get out the metre, we have to read sharf 
for sharaf —which is Hindustani, and have to scan haqqa waddin. 
