[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) › 165 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 165: XLVII. Qazi Mubarak of Gopamau. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 165 - **Language:** English ### [165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.165) He was a most learned man and performed the duties of his office of Qazi with great integrity and honesty. He acquired his knowledge and good breeding from his teacher, Shaikh Nizamu-ddin of Ambetha (may his tomb be sanctified!) and the Shaikh from the time when the Miyān first began to study in his hospice, had a special regard for him and bestowed care on his education, and whenever he used to make his request, saying, 'Why should not I too receive my share from the reservoir of your saintship?' Shaikh Nizāmu-'d-dīn would always reply, 'Qāzī Mubārak has devoured this world and gained (his reward in) the next.' The Qāzī lived highly regarded, honoured, and respected to the end of his life and thus too took his departure to the next world. Among the sages and learned men who came and settled in Gopāmau for the purpose of studying under the Qāzī (on him be God's mercy!), and there grew to manhood so that for the sake of profiting by their society men came from great distances and attained to perfection thereby, was the respected Budh, who used to give instruction in all the books commonly studied. Another was Sayyid Shāhyy of whom the same may be said, and there were others too in the same category. That caravan of sojourners has now reached its journey's end leaving no successors, and the mansions and abodes of learning have now been cleared of the tigers of the forest of knowledge so that those who, fox-like are ever ready to creep into an earth have taken their place. The author of the Mashāriqu-'l-Anwār too makes the same complaint of his own time, saying no sooner is the den clear of the lioness with two cubs than the gravid vixen enters it in the morning. Verse This one small loaf remains to poor Hasan, I fear that day when not even this will be left. - [Previous: 164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.164) - [Next: 166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.166) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.165) · Pramāṇa