[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 78.36.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.36.1 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 78.36.1 - **Language:** English ### [78.36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.36.1) “Wherever I and the loved-one met together, For fear of the malevolent we bit our lips, Without the intervention of ear or lip, by means of heart and eye, Many a word was there, that we said and heard.” Meanwhile the imperial surgeons came to operate on him. They thrust a probe into the wound to the depth of a span, and probed it mercilessly. But that man of fortitude swallowed the agony, like a sweet draught, and neither frowned, nor shewed any sign of pain, but smiled without dissimulation:— “My face is calm in spite of the bitter words of men, Poison is in my mouth, but my face is wreathed in smiles.” And that was my last sight of him until the Judgment-day, and my very last farewell of him. I heard two or three days after I arrived at Fath-pur, that his sickness had turned to a flux. He was so refined in the crucible of abstinence, that what remained of impurity in him, by reason of human nature and the infirmity of the flesh, entirely left him, and the alloy of his nature becoming pure gold, he became purified by fire, for ‘Trial is to the Saints what the flame is to gold’:— “All carnal attributes have departed from Mas‘ud Beg, That of him which was Soul is become that very Soul again.” - [Previous: 78.35.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.35.7) - [Next: 78.36.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.36.2) - [Up: 78.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.78.36.1) · Pramāṇa