Muntakhab al-tawarikh 181: LXIII. Maulana Ilahdad of Langarkhan.

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He comes from a quarter in Lahor. He is well-versed in all such branches of knowledge as are included in the ordinary curriculum, and is a profound scholar. He rules his life in accordance with the holy law and is abstinent and most pious and religious. He employs his time in teaching, but has never visited the houses of worldly and unpolished men, and has never asked assistance from the great ones of the earth nor accepted the usual subsistence allowance made to religious teachers. He is nearly eighty years of age.