Muntakhab al-tawarikh 91.5

91.5

(may God regard them both with favour!)” I said “In such a way, and others have said ‘in such another way.’” He said, “Suhrawardi, in the ‘Waqi‘a-yi-Sa‘iqa,’ where he verifies the forms of the three tombs, gives preference to the former statement of the case.” In accordance with the Shaikh's exalted command I remained for two days with Shaikh A'zam, who has been already mentioned, in a cell in the old hospice, and enjoyed detailed conversations with the Shaikh. Then I obtained leave to depart for Basawar. Subsequently, in the year H. 978 (A.D. 1570-71) I repeatedly had the honour of paying my respects to the Shaikh, and one of his extraordinary acts which I observed was that in the cold wintry air of the highlands of Fathpur he never wore anything on the upper part of his body but a shirt of a single thickness of fine cotton cloth, woven thin, and an upper garment of muslin, and this in spite of the duty that he imposed upon himself of bathing twice daily. His daily food in the quadragesimal fasts of union with God was half a water-melon, or even less than that. He passed away to the next world in the year H. 979 (A.D. 1571-72) and the words "the Indian Shaikh" were found to give the date of his death.