Note 28 — The Seventeenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession
Alexander Rogers translation
As in consequence of the weakness that came over me two years ago and still continues, heart and brain do not accord. I cannot28 make notes of events and occurrences. Now that Muʿtamid K. has come from the Deccan, and has had the good fortune to kiss the threshold, as he is a servant who knows my temperament and understands my words, and was also formerly entrusted with this duty, I gave an order that from the date which I have written he shall hereafter write them with his own hand, and attach them to my Memoranda. Whatever events may occur hereafter he should note after the manner of a diary, and submit them for my verification, and then they should be copied into a book.