[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 124.4 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 124.4 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 124.4 - **Language:** English ### [124.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124.4) ‘Abdu-’llah said to him, “Tell me something about this person (scil. Badaoni); who is he?” He and Haji Sultan then told him something of my affairs, and our meeting passed off quietly. After we had left him my friends said to me, “You have passed through a great danger, but (fortunately) he did not set himself to persecute you. Had he done so who could have saved you?” Maulana ‘Abdu-’llah, when he first set eyes on Shaikh Abu-’l-Fazl, in the early years of the Emperor’s reign, said to his pupils, “What injury will this man not do to the faith? “When I saw him in his childhood I showed him to those of the faith, “(Saying) ‘He will work mischief among the souls of men, to your guardianship I entrust him.’ ” Maulana ‘Abdu-’llah departed to eternity in Gujarat in the year H. 990 (A.D. 1582), after his return from the pilgrimage to the glorious city of Makkah, and the chronogram in the following verses was found to give the date of his death:— Makhdum-i-Mulk departed and took with him, As a sign on his forehead, (the words) “the mercy of God.” When I sought of my heart the date of his death, It replied to me, “ Reckon the second hemistich (of these verses)” He left behind him some degenerate sons who are unworthy of mention, and here I may remark that all the rising generation give cause of complaint to their progenitors, for indeed it seems that the climate of this age will cherish, nay will produce, none better than such fellows — - [Previous: 124.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124.3) - [Next: 124.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124.5) - [Up: 124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.124.4) · Pramāṇa