“Rise—hand it here from the palm of the sash-adorned maid, for the herald of dawn has already announced the night’s demise.
Make an early start toward pleasures and race to them on the swift coursers of diversion, frisking with delight,
before the mid-morning sun can sip the dewy draught from the mouths of the daisy blossoms.

He also said (1):
“She has deepened the kohl of her eyelids beyond all kohl, and she engraves the arrow’s point even while it remains deadly.”

[Then the year 528 AH began]
In it:
• The Caliph and Zankī concluded a peace agreement.
• Zankī captured numerous fortresses and slew great numbers of the Franks.
• Shams al-Mulūk seized al-Shaqīf (2) and Beirut and plundered Frankish territory.
• Suljūq Shāh arrived in Baghdad, stayed in the Dār al-Mamlaka, and was honored by the Caliph, who sent him ten thousand dinars (3).
Later Sultan Masʿūd came, most of his entourage mounted on camels (4) because horses were scarce.
• The emirate (5) of Banū ʿUqayl was granted to the sons of Sulaymān ibn Mahārish al-ʿUqaylī in honor of their grandfather.
• Ibn Ṭirād was reinstated as vizier.
• Iqbāl al-Mustarshadī was invested with royal robes, given the titles “King of the Arabs” and “Sword of the State,” rode out in the robes, and attended the dīwān accordingly.
• The authority of King Ṭughrul grew stronger, while that of King Masʿūd weakened.

[Among the notable deaths of that year]
Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Fayrūzābādī (6).