Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.41.3

78.41.3

And in this year the Mīr 'Adl departed this life, and the date is given by the following:— Sayyid-i-Fāzil—May God deal with him according to excellence (faz̤l)! Among the events of this time was the arrival of Sharīf of Āmul, and his interview with the Emperor while he was at Dībālpur. The sum of the matter is as follows: This reprobate apostate (P. 246) had run from country to country, like a dog that has burnt its foot, and turning from one sect to another, he went on wrangling until he became a perfect heretic. For some time he studied after the vain fashion of Çūfiism, which is void of all -sophy, in the school of Maulānā Muhammad Zāhid of Balkh, nephew of the great Shaikh Husain of Khwārizm (God sanctify his tomb!), and had lived with darveshes. But as he had little of the darvesh in him he set on foot abundance of vain talk and senseless effrontery, and blurted it out, so that they expelled him. The Maulānā wrote a poem against him in which the following verse occurs:— "There was a heretic, and Sharīf was his name, Perfect he thought himself, not perfect all the same!" In his wanderings he came to the Dak'hin, where from his want of self-restraint he betrayed the filthiness of his disposition, and the rulers of the Dak'hin wished to cleanse the tablet of existence of his image, but eventually he was only set on a donkey and shown about the city in disgrace.