He ushers in the festivals, both of fasting and of feasting (1),
and is greeted with felicity on land and at sea (2).
He enjoins obedience to Allah; now that he is a king
he is resolutely set upon securing happiness (3).
You have attained what you desired (4)
of religion and of this world (5);
so vaunt yourself over the other kings in glory and pride.
You have combined the two glories, root and branch,
and have mastered the two abodes, this world and the next.

Among the events that occurred this year was a great campaign between the lord of Ghazna, Shihab al-Din al-Sabuktigin (6), and the king of India together with those allies who had defeated him in the year 83 AH (7). Allah granted him victory over them (8) this year: he routed them, killed great numbers, and captured many (9). Among the captives were their supreme king and eighteen elephants, including the very one that had wounded him. The king was brought before him; he humiliated him and showed him no honour, seized his fortress, inspected everything of value and insignificance within it, then executed him. Thereafter he returned to Ghazna aided and victorious, rejoicing and exultant.

In that same year (10) the amir of the Hajj in Baghdad, Tashtekin (11)—who had supervised the pilgrims (12) for twenty years and whose conduct had been exemplary—was accused of corresponding with Salāh al-Din ibn Ayyub, inviting him to come to Iraq and seize it (13), on the pretext that no one stood between him and the land to bar his way (14). The accusation was fabricated, yet even so he was imprisoned, humiliated, and his property was confiscated (15).