Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.8.4

61.8.4

Mullā 'Abdullah said 'He is calling you and the rest of us misbelievers.' Islām Shāh becoming exceeding wroth waxed still fiercer in his efforts to punish and torture him, and kept his retinue standing for an hour longer while they cudgelled him, and when he thought that the breath had left his body— One single breath was left as a mediator (between Life and Death), That mediator also rose and departed, He desisted, and went on his way. A spark of life however remained (in the Shaikh) so they wrapped him in a raw hide, and kept him warm for a night and a day before a fire, till he recovered. This occurrence took place in the year nine hundred and fifty-five. When he had regained his health he left Baiana, and commenced travelling, and spent some time in Afghanistan (Roh), and some time among the Afghans of Pattan in the Panjab, on the confines of Baiwara between Amber and Amritsar, and was in the habit of saying: 'This was the fruit of consorting with argumentative people. Oh ye lords of contemplation, all my trust is in you, But ye masters of discussion, I'll have none of you.