"My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant."

"As the Bajauris were rebels and at enmity with the people of Islam, and as, by reason of the heathenish and hostile c…"

"I made public the resolution to abstain from wine, which had been hidden in the treasury of my breast The victorious …"

"On Monday the 9th of the first Jumada, we got out of the suburbs of Agra, on our journey (safar) for the Holy War, an…"

"'And victory the beautiful woman (shahid) whose world-adornment of waving tresses was embellished by Allah will aid y…"

"'After this success, Ghazi (Victor in a Holy-war) was written amongst the royal titles. Below the titles (tughra) ent…"

"Hindustan is a country which has few pleasures to recommend it.... Indians have no idea of the charms of friendly soc…"

"'Next day, at the time of the noon prayer, we went out for seeing those places in Gwalior which we had not yet seen' …"

"Chandiri I stormed in 934 A.H. (1528 A.D.) and, by God's pleasure, took it in a few hours; in it was Rana Sanga's gre…"

"I have not written all this to complain: I have simply written the truth. I do not intend by what I have written to c…"