Muntakhab al-tawarikh 154.5

154.5

Nor was there any need that I should write anything, for when the time came for me to make my requests of the Mirza, I composed some verses on this subject, moreover I wrote plainly that there was no occasion for ceremony. I hope that you will be diligent in delivering that letter. Farewell.” Shaikh Faizi, after his return from the Dakan, following his old custom of ingeniously tormenting his friends, was very desirous of gathering them round him in order to increase the attractions of his social circle and to indulge in conversation with them and was constantly annoying and troubling them (to come to him). Hemistich. Our friend has this, and also that. He sent several letters from Lahor to express the strong desire which he had of summoning Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Haqq to him. The Shaikh, however, was exceedingly vexed, and would not come, but sent letters containing excuses, and made his seclusion from the world his pretext for not coming. Shaikh Faizi then sent in reply the letter of which a copy appears below, and this is the last letter which he wrote, and what is written in it is written.