Muntakhab al-tawarikh 174.5

174.5

“I pray you to accept, on behalf of your most honoured, most orthodox, and most glorious son, Shaikh Muḥiyyu-d-dīn Muḥammad, my humble submission. May God, the most Holy and most High, assist him in the acquirement of all knowledge, both secular and spiritual, by the honour of him who was named with the name of his sublime title (may his pure tomb be hallowed!) It is probable that, owing to your claims as a neighbour to confidence, you may have heard what that resort of chiefship Miran Sayyid Qutbu-d-din, had to say with regard to his failure to answer my humble letter to him, but it behoves you rather to regard my essential claims upon you, for these claims are clearly to be preferred to the claim of mere neighbourhood ; and likewise you should not place too much confidence in the display of affection which the worshipful Miran makes, for in the end it has no stability. God the most High knows the truth ! I have lost the rough copy of the verses which I wrote in the new Asafkhani style, explaining what had not previously been clearly expressed. It is possible that you, my honoured friend, may have taken a copy from my rough draft, and, if so, I pray you to send me a copy of your copy. If you answer this letter it will be well. (I call to mind) God ! ”