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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.6.5

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 77.6.5

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77.6.5

And the Khān Khānān, on account of the influence which Shaikh Gadā-ī exercised over his mind, did not receive Shaikh Muhammad in such a friendly manner as he ought to have done. On the contrary he held many preconcerted conversaziones, in which he brought forward the Shaikh to be a butt for the arrows of contumely, by bringing on the tapis a treatise of his, in which, describing the circumstances of his own exaltation, he says that in his waking moments he had had an interview and conversation with the Lord of Glory (glorious is His Majesty!), who assigned to him a superiority over the Repository of Prophecy, (may (P. 35) God bless him, and his family, and give him peace !), and which contained other such follies equally contemptible and reprehensible both in thought and expression. So the Shaikh much chagrined retired to Gwalyar, and occupied himself in the pursuits of his holy calling, contenting himself with a jagir which yielded a million sterling !