[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) › 82 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 82: I. MIYAN HATIM OF SAMBHAL. (May God sanctify his tomb!) Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 82 - **Language:** English ### [82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.82) Miyan Hatim was a profound sage who passed very many years in teaching. He was endowed with both inward and outward perfection. While he was engaged in acquiring knowledge he was overcome by religious ecstasy, and, forsaking scholastic disputations, attached himself as a disciple to his teacher, Shaikh ‘Azizu-’llah, a learned man of Tulamba, who was of those who are truly wise in the way of God, and was one of the most highly regarded of the holy men of his time. He also spent some time in the service of Shaikh ‘Alau-’d-Din Cishti of Dihli, (may God sanctify his soul!) following his rule, and obtained from both of these holy men permission to perfect their students and disciples. At the time when he was first drawn towards God he wandered about for ten years, bareheaded and barefooted, in the waste country round about Sambhal and Amroha, and during all this time his head touched not bed or bolster. He was a man who took keen pleasure in contemplating God and whom the singing of God’s praises threw into an ecstasy of delight, and ever, as he spoke and smiled, the name of God was on his tongue. In his last years the intoxication of joy which he experienced in his love for God so overpowered him that to listen but for a short space to the chanting of God’s praises placed him beside himself. He had not the strength to listen to hymns. When I, in the year 960 A.H. (A.D. 1553), being then in my twelfth year, arrived in company with my father at Sambhal, and there entered the service of the Shaikh, I learnt by heart, in his hospice, the Qasida-yi-burda, and thus gained admission (to the ranks of his disciples), and there I also read, to my great spiritual advantage and profit, part of the book Kanz-i-fiqh-i-Hanafi. The Shaikh then enrolling me among his direct disciples said to my father, “I have bestowed upon your son the cap and the tree which descend from my spiritual teacher Miyan Shaikh ‘Azizu-’llah for this reason, that he may acquire also some exoteric knowledge” (i.e., beyond the esoteric knowledge which he was to acquire). And for this praise be to God. In the year 969 A.H. (A.D. 1561-2) the holy Shaikh went into God’s Presence, and the words “the wise darvish” give the date of his death. May God make his dust fragrant! And it so happened that my father too received the summons of God’s mercy in the same year. One might say that the position in which he stood to the Shāh as his disciple made it necessary that he should so follow him. - [Previous: 81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.81) - [Next: 83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.83) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.82) · Pramāṇa