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aud ceremony, waited on them with propriety and presented them with suitable gifts, and making an agreement and compact with them, emptied the fortress and brought them into it; but at night-fall he assembled a large force, and in the quiet of the morning when Hasan Khan
nd his adherents were wrapped in a deep sleep in their beds the double-dealing Siraj Khân with his troops entered the fortress, and taking possession of the horses and baggage, surrounded the citadel in which were Hasan Khan and Mirza Habib-Ulláh with their six deroted followers; and when the sleepers awoke they saw the hostile troops which had surrounded the citadel. When Hasan Khan.saw what had happened he cried for quarter. Although Mirza Habib-Ullah endeavoured to dissuade him from showing this weakness and humility, and reminded him of the want of faith and trustworthiness of those people, and in language suggested by their situation, quoted the verse:
"The snake in protecting inflicts injury:
Moreover its tooth is poisonous." Hasan Khan, from his excessive fear, gave no heed to his words, and at last threw himself on the mercy of Siraj Khan; but Mirza Habib-Ullah and his friends resolved not to accept quarter which was not at all to be relied upon. He said :-"We are all born to death, and are prepared for the arrival of the predestined moment. I am resolved never to place the hand of submission in your land or sue for mercy from you.
An enemy does not become a life-long friend; The Arabian thorn-tree produces no fruit but thorns. The hyacinth does not grow from white seed. Who ever saw sugar-cane produced from the common cane P
And strive as one may, one jewel does not become another." His eloquence, however, made no impression on those people, and Shah Habib-Ulláh and his friends suffered martyrdom. The poet Saiyid Tâbir bas composed a chronogram of the martyrdom of Shah Habib-Ulláh, wbich occurred in A. H. 863, A. D. 1458.6
Hasan Khân, to whom they had given & promise of security was sent to the court of Humâyûn Shah, and the Saltân caused him, in his own presence, to be thrown before tigers and killed. The faithless Siraj Khân, after breaking his promise became afflicted with leprosy.
After that Sultan Humayun Shah opened the band of tyranny and oppression, and overthrew the foundations of mankind with the sword of injustice, and used to murder whole families at once. From the sighs of the hearts of the afflicted each night there used to be a thousand cavities in the livers of the celestial globe, and the daylight, from the smoke of the hearts (sighs) of the oppressed used to appear like a dark evening. The fire of his rage blazed up in such a way that it burned up land and water; and the broker of his violence used to sell the guilty and innocent by one tariff. The nobles and generals when they went to salute the Sultan used to bid farewell to their wives and children and make their wills. Most of the nobles, ministers, princes and heirs to the sovereignty were put to the sword.
Several of the new Musalmans whom Sanjar Khûn in the time of the late Sultan, during, his war with the infidels, had made prisoners — as already mentioned -- were promoted to high, dignity. Among these was a Brahmin youth to whom the name of Hasan and the surname of Baḥri was given. He was a youth adorned with beauty both of person and disposition, and ornamented with perfect sagacity and shrewdness : on him was conferred the title of Sarang Khan.
Historians have related that Shitab Khân, one of the Sultan's amirs, having fled for his life, the Sultan, on the 27th of the month Ramazân, wbich is the time for repentance, ordered
حبيب الله غازي طاب شعاه 6 برامد روح پاک نعمت الله
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مه شعبان شما دست یافت در هند
روان طاري ميبست داربن
