Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.8.2

61.8.2

Miyan Bahwa went to the Shaikh and said : It seems to me to be the best course for you to hide yourself for a few days in accordance with the saying “one should avoid misfortune” and migrate from this city to some other place, then perchance the king will forget all about you and never make an attempt of this kind again,” and you will have met the emergency, while I for my part shall have a good excuse. Verse. Bear not a misfortune when the night intervenes between it and you. Shaikh ‘Abdu-llah would not agree to this suggestion of his, and said, “this is an arrogant monarch and Makhdumu-l-Mulk is always watching for an opportunity. If they go still further away and then send for me it will cause me great annoyance ; for this reason, seeing that he is only ten krohs distant, I had better interview him now, and as for the question of mastery here and there, it will be all one whether it is to be now or in the future, since whatever is predestined will come to pass.” Man proposes and God disposes. The reins of affairs are not in the hands of one who looks to expediency, Yield the reins into the hands of Fate, this is the advisable course.