Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.32.3

78.32.3

At the time when it was customary to get hold of, and kill such as tried to introduce innovations in religious matters (as had been the case with Mir Habshi and others), Shaikh ‘Abd-un-nabi and Makhdúm-ul-Mulk, and other learned men at Court, unanimously represented to the Emperor that Shaikh Mubárik also, in as far as he pretended to be Mahdi (p. 190), belonged to the class of innovators, and was not only himself damned, but led others into damnation. Having obtained a sort of permission to remove him, they despatched police officers to bring him before the Emperor. But, when they found that the Shaikh with his two sons had concealed himself, they demolished the pulpit in his prayer-room. The Shaikh at first took refuge with Salim Chishti at Fathpúr, who was then in the height of his glory, and requested him to intercede for him. Shaikh Salim, however, sent him money by some of his disciples, and told him it would be better for him to go away to Gujrat. Seeing Salim took no interest in him, Shaikh Mubarik applied to Mirza ‘Aziz Kokah, who took occasion to praise to the Emperor the Shaikh’s learning and voluntary poverty, and the superior talents of his two sons, adding that Mubarik was a most trustworthy man, that he had never received lands as a present, and that he himself could really not see why the Shaikh was so much persecuted. The Emperor at last gave up all thoughts of killing the Shaikh.