Appointment to the vice-Chair’s office in the Council of Merw

Merw is the place where the Sultanate is, where the official flag waves, and where Allah’s grace and support embraces the Seljuk generation. Therefore, attention should be paid so that it is different from and more organized than other parts of the country. Our citizens who are far away from the centre and its periphery, and those under our administration will always benefit from our mercy and compassion. We appoint our councils’ trustworthy, skilled, successful and experienced members who know much about the details of the taxation matters of the region and who were examined by us for the offices that need to be filled. The chair of that city’s council was the famous scientist Zeyneddin Se_it for a long time. By Allah’s will and after his re-election to this office, we encumbered him with this duty again. We had confidence in his courage, his foresight, his skills and kind manners, his high level of scholarship and piety. He is an exceptional talent with all these qualities. So many and great are the services he rendered to his nation that no reward could be proper for him, for he deserves more than anything that could be granted to him. His excellent poems and prose praising the state and used as adornment in many books will live forever. They are such valuable pieces that they are beyond comparison. A man with such qualities will never lose his dignity. The office of the chair of the financial institutions was always assumed by his deputies. Zeyneddin (May Allah grant him more) was always at our disposal and he was responsible for the fulfilment of a very important task in the palace. But we were informed of the fact at a time of Zeyneddin’s absence (May Allah grant him more