[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) › 200 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 200: XI. HAKIM AHMAD, OF TATTA. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 200 - **Language:** English ### [200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.200) He was a good theologian who was impelled by his own shameless assurance to pose as a physician. His learning was extensive, and he had travelled throughout Arabia and Persia. He was a cheerful soul, but somewhat disordered in mind, a prey to vain desires, and a pretender to honours to which he had no claim. I constantly admonished him, reminding him that he had no right to the rank of a Sayyid, and that groundless claims of this sort met with scant consideration in India. I told him if he had any regard for the faith, to profess himself a true Musalman, for that in these latter days nothing remained of the true faith but its name. But my admonitions availed nothing, and he met with the just reward of his deeds. I saw him after he had received his death-wound from Mirza Fulad, and I swear by God, the God of whose Godhead there is no doubt, that the hakim's face appeared to others, as well as to me, exactly like the head of a hog, and the words “the hellish hog” were found to give the date of his death. Shaikh Faizi found another chronogram in the words, “on the twenty-fifth of the month of Safar.” I found two chronograms for the event in the following couplet slightly altered from the Hadiqah, which is applicable equally to the slayer and the slain. “And we adhered to the certain presumptions.” Another person found a chronogram in the words, “Hail dagger of Fulad!” - [Previous: 199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.199) - [Next: 201](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.201) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.200) · Pramāṇa