His barbéd arrows are God’s swift decrees;
His butts the lives of all his enemies.
His strength of arm is such as angels know,
The curvéd sky he uses as his bow.
When Heaven itself to praise the Shāh would fail,
What can Mushtāqī’s[806] humble verse avail?
This book, by the aid of the Munificent King, was finished on the day of Wednesday, in the month of Zū ’l-Qaʿda the Sacred, in the year 1285[807] of the Flight of the Prophet; and it contains the Views and Experience of Taymūr Mīrzā, son of Ḥusayn ʿAlī Mīrzā, and bearer of the title of Governor of the Province of Fārs.
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