Muntakhab al-tawarikh 144: XXV. MAULANA ILAHI OF LAHOR.

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Lahor is a famous qasbah of Lahor. The Maulana is a relative of Haji Mahdi who was one of the most famous Shaikhs. He is now one of the most learned men of the time and has been appointed as a teacher at Lahor. He is a pupil of Mulla Isma'il of Ucch and has also received instruction from other teachers. He is a most expert disputant, possesses great acumen and has much store of learning in all branches of knowledge, both those which call for the exercise of the reasoning faculty and those which depend on the memory. They say that he has been engaged in reading until he was eight years old. He has a good delivery and speaks unambiguously, so that he is able readily to convey to the understanding of his pupils the peruse of arguments on knotty points of speculative and traditional science. He is kind-hearted, pious and religious, and has the Qur'an by heart. He is endowed with amiable qualities. The correction and arrangement of the Quranic exegesis of Shaikh Ya'qub is principally his work. His age is between fifty and sixty.
Couplet. What of argument regarding knowledge? Though it travel as far as Farqadan, The mention of the name of Maulana Jamalu-'d-din Muhammad will accompany it.