Chronogram on the Appointment of the Vizier

Thanks be to God that by the command of the world's king of kings, one whose seal of approval is needed before fate itself can act, one for whom, when people warm their breath in prayer, even the lips of those who pray break out in cold sores from the heat. The sea-hearted king, of heavenly grandeur, Shah Safi, at whose threshold even the dust thirsts for the water of eternal life. The king's chief minister, a sayyid of noble lineage and pure descent, who, like God's grace, has a place in every heart. A Mirza whose sweet breath, the fragrance of his good character, if it were sold as perfume at the head of the dawn-breeze market, then in the meadow, by the grace the breeze releases, every flower bud would turn into the musk pouch of a Khotan gazelle. The affairs of the masters of art are now close to order, and the worth of people of honor has found its currency again. The star of learning has risen from its fall to the height of glory, and the knowledge of religious law has climbed from the dust up to the Pleiades. On the night my heart longed for the chronogram of this event, I heard, from the private chamber of nearness to the divine, the spirit of the Prophet saying in Arabic: 'And indeed the millstone of the faith has turned upon its axis.'