Muntakhab al-tawarikh 92.10

92.10

then I too, trusting in my own singleness of heart, thoughtlessly asked, "What is meant by the two ‘Ids?" This question annoyed the Shaikh and he angrily said, "Let Bayazid and Junaid, or Shibli and Mansur ask such a question as this. What have you to do with such a question?" And falling into this vein he spoke pargana to Ambethi, and all our efforts were centred on reaching that place in time to recite the early morning prayers in company with the Shaikh. The dawn had already appeared when, at three kurohs' distance from Ambethi, we put spurs to our horses, and regretted that we were not in time for the public prayers. We reached the Shaikh's masjid in Ambethi as the sun was about to rise. At that moment the holy Shaikh, having come out of his house, was just commencing his prayers with the “Allahu Akbar,” and he broke off, and we thought that we were just too late, but we nevertheless attained the great honour (which we sought). Now this act of the Shaikh was contrary to his usual custom, for he always recited the early morning prayers at a time when we thought that the true dawn had hardly appeared.