Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.20.1

78.20.1

“The date of the death of Shaikh Islam The Shaikh of sages, and the Shaikh of princes.” In this year a dreadful event happened to the compiler of this epitome. It is briefly as follows: When Kant and Golah became the jagir of Muhammad Husain Khan, and I, in accordance with the decree of fate, remained some time in his service, and became Sadr of that province, and had the responsibility of ministering to the faqirs, on the occasion of a pilgrimage to the shrine of that illustrious luminary, that Shaikh of nobles, that marvel of truth and religion Shah Madar (God sanctify his glorious tomb!) at Makanpur one of the dependencies of Qannouj, I, this son of man who have imbibed my mother’s crude milk, through the nature of my disposition which is compounded of innate carelessness (which is the cause of wrong-doing and repentance) and of radical ignorance (which conduces to presumption and damage, and has descended to me from the father of all flesh) wilfully closed the eyes of my intellect, and gave it the name of love. So I was captured in the net of desire and lust, and the secret contained in the ancient writing of fate was revealed, and suddenly in that shrine I committed a terrible piece of impropriety.