Muntakhab al-tawarikh 107: XXV. Shaikh Ruknu-’d-Din.

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(May God have mercy on him!)
He is the orthodox son of Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Quddus of Gangu, whose distinguished virtues and perfections are beyond the need of any comment or exposition, being sufficiently indicated and signified by the holy writings which he has compiled. Gangūh is a pargana town in the confines of Thānesar. The Shaikh was a man greatly respected, whose outward appearance bore witness to his perfections. He was a man of great authority in the mysticism of the Sūfīs, and followed the religious rule of the holy men of his own order, and was one of those who are overcome by a mysterious longing after God and are subject to fits of religious ecstasy.
He went occasionally, but very seldom, to the houses of men of worldly position and rank, and never but when in need. Otherwise he remained constantly in the corner of retirement and abstraction. I, the compiler of these pages, paid my respects to him in Dihlī, at the time of Bairām Khān’s rebellion, in one of the assemblies of Shaikh ‘Abdu-l-‘Azīz (may God have mercy on him!). Praise be to God (therefor)!