Translation: Had this sky (fate) got me killed with grief and pain (in my imprisoned state)! This patch (of garment) of my life would not have yielde… - Masud Sa'd Salman

Thou didst depart with a thousand joyful anticipations on a holy expedition, and didst return having achieved a thousand victories… On this journey the army destroyed a thousand idol-temples and thy elephants trampled over more than a hundred strongholds. Thou didst march thy arm to Ujjain; Malwa trembled and fled from thee… On the way to Kalinjar thy pomp obscured the light of day. The lip of infidelity became dry through fear of thee, the eye of plural-worship became blind…

As power and the strength of a lion was bestowed upon Ibrahim by the Almighty, he made over to him the well-populated country of Hindustan and gave him 40,000 valiant horsemen to take the country, in which there were more than 1000 rais… Its length extends from Lahore to the Euphrates, and its breadth from Kashmir to the borders of Sistan… The army of the king destroyed at one time a thousand temples of idols, which had each been built for more than a thousand years. How can I describe the victories of the king…

I am fallen person in a thousand sorrows
In each breath my life's looking in end
with no sin I am prisoner
with no reason fallen in trouble
stars have sworn to hurt me
the sky has come to fight with me
today in pains I'm higher than the yesterday
this year my soul's lesser than last year
I had many selected friends
what has become no one's remain
every night the sky's made sad
with my painful sadness cryings
I fell in jail, why? I don't know
I just know: I'm not still nor wicked
to much desires I had before
oh alas! where is my lost desires