Muntakhab al-tawarikh 115.2
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 115.2
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115.2
but, when he discovered that Shaikh ‘Arif was setting up some claim or another, he demanded his daughter's dowry back again, and took a deed of divorce from her husband; and the Shah went thence to Tibat, and there also, they say, he performed many miracles, one of them being that he shook a tree, and quantities of dirhams and dinars fell from it. In this manner he exhibited great supernatural power, in Gujarat, Hindustan, Kashmir and Tibat, and wherever he went attempts were made on his life, and he travelled from country to country. On the first occasion on which the Emperor made a tour from Kashmir to Kabul the Shah came to see him in the course of that journey, and the Emperor appointed persons to have charge of him, who should not let him go out of their sight. And sometimes, when he came into the Emperor’s presence, his Majesty would place musk, and camphor, and other perfumes in a golden cup, and present it to the Shaikh as a gift; but however much he said “Accept from me some gold, or some land,” the Shaikh would reply, “Bestow the gold upon your Ahadis, for they are in sorry case.