Muntakhab al-tawarikh 174.3

174.3

This enigma on the name of ghaida is also by the Shaikh: — “My moon hath cast the veil from off her face, “See, how she hath of set purpose turned day into night!” At the time when he obtained permission to depart from Lahor to his dearly loved native land, he wrote to me from the far side of the river Ravi a letter, which I copy here as a fortunate relic. “My helper and my mighty one! After laying before you the prayers and supplications of true friendship, I represent to your mind, brilliant as the sun, that the cause of your neglecting to observe, in respect of your sincere and true friend, one most excellent institution was probably the fact that, though the approved custom of travelling with a friend for a part of his journey is one of the requirements of the observance of setting-him on his way, you were not able at the present time to perform this office and therefore could not help but leave it undone. I hope, however, that you will not entirely efface the memory of me from the margin of your bounteous heart, and that you will adopt the graceful habit of remembering the absent. If you should have any need of Kashmir paper for rough notes and drafts I hope that you will inform me of the fact, so that I may send you from Kashmir the rough copy of my commentaries, the writing of which can be washed from the paper with water so completely that no trace of the ink will remain, as you yourself have seen. And now peace be with you and grace be upon you.”