Muntakhab al-tawarikh 157.2

157.2

Students and Sūfīs are gathered together in his hospice and profit by his companionship. He had a pupil, a one-eyed man named Maulānā Farīd, of whom it was said that, although he had not studied deeply, as soon as a difficult question or subtle and obscure argument was propounded to him from any advanced book whatsoever, he would at once call for pen and inkstand, and, having reduced it to writing, would solve it immediately, although he could not give the solution orally, or even read what he had himself written. Shaikh Ziyā’u-’llāh and the whole of the Ghausiyyah order submitted themselves entirely to the authority of this (Farīd), so that their subjection to the Sayyid may be imagined. I have also heard that the same Farīd would in one night relate to Sayyid Shāh Mīr events that had just happened in the farthest parts of the world, east or west. Some attributed this power to the possession of a Jinn, and others to other causes.