I went away from the distress of the Turks because I saw The...

I went away from the distress of the Turks because I saw The world entangled like the hair of negroes; They were all human beings, but Like wolves sharp-clawed, for shedding blood. When I returned I saw the country at rest, The tigers having abandoned the nature of tigers. Within a man of good disposition like an angel, Without an army like bellicose lions.

Thus it happened that first I beheld The world full of confusion, anxiety and distress; Then it became as it is in the days of the just Sultan Atabek Abu Bekr Ben Sa'd Zanki. The country of Pares dreads not the vicissitudes of time, As long as one presides over it like thee, the shadow of God. Today no one can point out on the surface of the earth, A place like the threshold of thy door, the asylum of comfort.

On thee is incumbent the protection of the distressed and gratitude Upon us and reward on God the creator of the world, As long as the world and wind endure. The Cause for Composing the Gulistan I was one night…