Muntakhab al-tawarikh 305.4

305.4

His manner of forming his letters and his handwriting were like those of the master of the world. His unformed hand and his ill-formed letters are like those of boys, but in spite of that hand and those letters he has a childish confidence in himself. experienced holy rapture, and, springing up from my place as one beside himself, uttered the following couplet:— “Whether Thou showest me favour or whether Thou showest it not I am one of that brotherhood who wear the ring of Thy service in their ears.” His holiness the Shaikh seized me by the hand and whirled me round with him, and the delight of that moment never leaves my heart. He died in Agra, in the neighbourhood of Shaikh Farid’s College, in a.h. 966 (a.d. 1558-59). The following opening couplet of one of his odes is well known: “The mouth of my Friend last night told me a secret mystery, ‘I am the fountain of the water of life, and thou knowest it not.’ ”