Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.4.2

79.4.2

In this year he sent for the renowned Shaikhs from all sides and quarters, and had a private interview with each, and investigated several matters. Most of them made themselves agreeable, having a grant of some biqahs of land in view (may dust be scattered on their heads!), and indulged in flattery, and wheedling, and open blasphemy. And their real intentions broke through their cloke of dissimulation. This is the portion of the enemies [of the Faith]: Morals remained after the loss of Renunciation, Solitude, Trust, Contentment, Aspiration; and even that too men saw stripped from them all, and so suspicion of them crept into other quarters:— “This lot of fools are clothed in rags, They mumble some mysterious words. They have never advanced far in sincerity and purity, Though they have destroyed many a good name.” Of the number of these was Shaikh Chanildah, successor of the great Shaikh ‘Abd-ul-‘aziz, an inhabitant of the town of Siwahnah. In accordance with the Emperor’s command he went down to the ‘Ibadat Khanah and began to display and sell perverted prayers. He foretold that a certain lady of the harem would bring forth a son, but as it so happened that a daughter was born, the prophesy fell rather flat. In the same way Sayyid Hashim Firozabadi opened that kind of business with a hundred marvels; and they became the cause of discrediting former teachers.