Muntakhab al-tawarikh 175.3

175.3

As for what you wrote regarding the air of the apartment of fragrant grass, and the iced water, it brought to my mind the following verse:— “Of life (is left) but that which is ice in summer heat.” And reminded me of the saying, “O company of Muslims, have pity upon him whose stock-in-trade has declined,” for it is some days since I have enjoyed that cool air and that iced water. “The wolf’s mouth is bloody, but he has not torn Yusuf,” Verse. “Let him who imagines that love is an easy matter come, and look upon my face, and from its haggardness he will understand that love is a hard matter.” His Majesty, who is near the sun in excellence, has, for some reason, and without the intervention of any person whatsoever, taken the name of me, the humblest of his slaves, on his blessed tongue, expressing some intention of bestowing on me the trusteeship of (the shrine in) the exalted region of Ajmer. Verse. Those tents have vanished from the sight of me, the watcher, Peace be on the dwellers therein, is the wish which I would have conveyed.