[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) › 173 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 173: LV. Sadr-i-Jahan, of Pihani. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 173 - **Language:** English ### [173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.173) Pihani is a village in the district of Qannauj. Sadr-i-Jahan is a learned Sayyid of a happy disposition, most of whose life has been passed in the camp. He acquired his great learning under the tuition of Shaikh 'Abdu-'n-Nabi, and it was in consequence of the Shaikh's exertions that he was appointed chief mufti of the empire, a post which he held for several years. After the religious leaders of India had fallen into disgrace, his habits of submission to authority and his time-serving and worldly disposition led him to regard before everything the honour and esteem which he enjoyed in the world. He accompanied the physician Humam on his embassy to the ruler of Turan, and when he returned thence he was honoured by being appointed Sadr of the empire. At the time when it was noised abroad in Lahor that those who remained of the 'Ulama were to be banished to Makkah the glorious, and a list of them had been prepared, the Sadr-i-Jahan said one day, "I fear lest I may have been included in this class." Mirza Nizamu-'d-din Ahmad, who had prepared the list, said, "Why should you be sent to Makkah?" The Sadr-i-Jahan asked the Mirza why he needed to ask the question, and the Mirza replied, "You have never given utterance to God's words that you should be worthy of this banishment." The Sadr-i-Jahan, notwithstanding his poetic gifts and his great aptitude for writing poetry, now repents of his former devotion to the art. The following opening couplet of a qasidah is by him:— “ May each hair of my beloved’s locks, 0 God, become an affliction, And may my heart be afflicted with each one of those afflictions ! ” I pray that, if it please God, he may be given grace to repent of foolish disputations on points of secular knowledge, of hypocrisy, ostentation, self-esteem, and extravagant boasting, which he must have learnt from one possessed of a devil, just as he has repented of writing poetry. - [Previous: 172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.172) - [Next: 174.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.174.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.173) · Pramāṇa