Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.45.6

78.45.6

Since the account of those trifles and particulars, and the stringing of all these events in chronological order is of the number of impossibilities, thus much must be deemed sufficient, and my refuge is in the mercy of God (He is exalted!), who in all cases is the defender and protector of his servants, in fulfilment of the promise:— “Shall not verily the party of God have the upper hand, is not God sufficient for his servants ? ” I have made bold to chronicle these events, a course very far removed from that of prudence and circumspection. But God (He is glorious and honoured !) is my witness, and sufficient is God as a witness, that the inducement to write this has been nothing but sorrow for the faith and heart-burning for the deceased Religion of Islam, which ‘Anqa-like turning its face to the Qāf of exile, and withdrawing the shadow of its wings from the dwellers in the dust of this lower world, thenceforth became a nonentity, and still is so. And to God I look for refuge from reproach, and hatred, and envy, and religious prosecution “ I am content with what God has decreed for me, And I commit my affairs to my Creator. God has indeed been good in what is past, So will He be good in what is to come.” In this year a certain hakīm came to Fathpur, who said that he could construct a house having all its four sides in the water. And that he could plunge into the water and enter the house without the water’s penetrating it.