Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.3.4

33.3.4

198. Various disorders affected him, and hectic fever which leads to ill-temper, and bad causes the health to become deranged, gained the mastery over him, and when only such a small amount of health remained that it was like a single lamp to light the whole house, Khizr Khan in fulfillment of a vow he had made, in singleness of heart and sincerity of spirit set out from Hatnapur barefooted upon a pilgrimage to the holy men of Dihli, and performed his thanksgiving for the restoration of his father’s health, but it is a very strange fact that he never once went to visit the Sultanu-l-Masha’ikh wal-Auliya, “Shaikh of the sects, Pillar of the faith, Nizamu-d Din Like Khizr and Masih with a breath brings bones to life,” with whom he was connected by bonds of affection and sanctity. And Malik Naib informed the Sultan of the coming of Khizr Khan with considerable embellishment, saying that Alp Khan, the maternal uncle of Khan, who had arrived from Gujrat, out of policy and prudence, having regard to the affairs of the State and in his desire to become Naib and Vakil, had himself summoned his sister’s son, and further remarked that if this crude idea and immature desire had not fixed itself in the mind of Khizr Khan, why had he come unbidden to the Court?