Muntakhab al-tawarikh 137.1

137.1

He was an inhabitant of Uchh, and was the delight of the heart and the apple of the eye of his holiness Shaikh Hámid-i-Qádirí, may God make his tomb fragrant. At the time when that holy man (may God the most High have mercy upon him!) was in Ágra, in the days when Bairám Khán, the Khánkhánán, was in power, I was a student, but I had not the good fortune of waiting on him. When Bairám Khán, owing to the machinations of malevolent and perverse persons, the chief of whom was Shaikh Gadá-í, became puffed up with pride on account of his transient high position, he began to regard the holy Shaikh with disfavour, and summoned him from Uchh. The Shaikh was much displeased, and declared that the order augured ill for his persecutor, and then happened to Bairám Khán what did happen. But Shaikh Muhammad Ghaus used to attribute the subsequent confusion in the affairs of Bairám Khán to his own journey to Court (in obedience to a summons). When the holy Shaikh Hámid returned to Multán, his soul, now resting on high, conveyed itself in the sacred shrine to the neighbourhood of the attendants of the sublime court of heaven, and his pure body was committed to the ground in the village of Hándpúr, a dependency of Multán. There had been for many years a dispute between Shaikh 'Abdu-'l-Qádir and his younger brother Shaikh Músá regarding the title to the Shaikhdom, and Shaikh Músá consequently spent most of his time at Court.