گردوں بہ رنج و درد مارا کشتہ بود اگر پیوند و عمر من نہ شدے نظم جان فضائے - Masud Sa'd Salman

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

The narrative of thy battles eclipses the stories of Rustam and Isfandiyar. Thou didst bring an army in one night from Dhangan to Jalandhar… Thou didst direct but one assault and by that alone brought destruction upon the country. By the morning meal not one soldier, not one Brahman, remained unkilled or uncaptured. Their beads were severed by the carriers of swords. Their houses were levelled with the ground with flaming fire… Thou has secured victory to the country and to religion, for amongst the Hindus this achievement will be remembered till the day of resurrection.

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…