Muntakhab al-tawarikh 104.4

104.4

1585) at the time of the expedition to Atak, when His Majesty reached Sirhind, he again sent for the Miyan, and offered him some land as madad-i-ma'ash, but he, making contentment his title-deed, would not accept it, but the Emperor had the grant made out, whether the Miyan would or no, and had it delivered to him, and he, obeying the Emperor’s order, received the farman, but nevertheless forsook not his habit of relying on God alone, and did not in any way concern himself with the grant throughout his life. He made the books Ihya and Kimiya the guides of his actions. In the year in which Ulugh Mirza’s rebellion took place I was with Muhammad Husain Khan. I saw the Miyan in Sirhind, and he gave me some profitable lessons from the Ihya, which he had with him. A friend of his, named Mahmud Khan, who had been intimate with him since the days of Islam (Salim) Shah, and to whom Shaikh Mubarak, at the time of the persecution of Shaikh ‘Alai had given the title of Saifu-'llah (“the sword of God”), asked him, “What is the heart?”