Muntakhab al-tawarikh 92.3

92.3

I have heard that he once snatched the book “Fusūsu ’l-Hikam” from the hand of Shaikh Abu ’l-Fath, the son of Shaikh-u’l-Hidyah, who is now his great father’s representative and sits on his prayer-carpet of Shaikhdom, and, taking it from him, gave him another book, saying, “Read this.” He made the books “Ihyā’u-’l-‘Ulūm,” “‘Awārif,” “Risāla-yi-Makkiyyah,” & “Adābu-’l-Murīdīn,” and other books of the same sort, the pivot on which his doctrine and practice turned, both in his religious duties and in the daily business of life. He always first recited the midday prayers with the congregation on Friday and afterwards recited the regular Friday prayers. In the khutbah he altogether omitted the praises of kings. I saw him reciting the Friday prayers with his shoes on his feet, and he said “His holiness, the resort of apostleship, (may God bless and save him!) recited his prayers with his shoes on.” On one occasion one of his pupils desired to learn a lesson from the book known as Kāfiyah, asking for the Shaikh’s blessing on his lesson. The Shaikh pretended not to hear him.