Muntakhab al-tawarikh 115.1

115.1

He is one of the grandsons of Shah Isma'il-i-Safavi. He is a great master of exorcism, practises many austerities and strives much in the path of holiness, breaking his fast always with some coarse burnt barley bread and bitter herbs, which none but himself can bear to eat. He walks steadfastly in the straight path of the holy law, and recites the azan at the five times of prayer, in the very portico of Shaikh Abu-’l-Fazl, at the Imperial Court, fearing nobody. Many miracles are related of him, one of them being as follows. He will throw a round piece of paper into a chafing-dish, with the fire burning therein, and will take out of the chafing-dish coined ashrafis and distribute them to the company, how many soever they be. They say that he will come out of a locked room, just as bodies are transported from place to place, and will appear elsewhere. On one occasion he came from Gujarat to the city of Lahore and gave to the people winter fruits in the summer time and summer fruits in the winter time. The ‘ulama of the Panjab, the chief of whom was Makhdumu-’l-Mulk, raised objections to what he was doing, and said, “It is evident that this fruit comes from some people’s orchards, and that he has possessed himself of it without the owners' permission, and to eat it is unlawful.' As he was not well received in that country, he went to Kashmir, and ‘Ali Khan, the ruler of that land believed firmly in him, and gave him his daughter in marriage;