Muntakhab al-tawarikh 92.5

92.5

God the Most High has willed to bestow upon Hatim a portion of prosperity by means of these unsatisfactory gifts, a few clothes and old shoes.” Shaikh Nizam obtained such complete power and utter influence over Hatim that in a short time he (Hatim) attained a great reputation, and Shaikh Nizamu-’d-din in expounding Divine truths and the mystic knowledge of God used to restrict the title of Shaikh to him alone. In the meanwhile Shaikh Hatim experienced many ups and downs, and he was troubled with asthma, and various sicknesses, and just as he had acquired the right to be Shaikh Nizamu-’d-din’s deputy and successor he chose the path to the next world. The Shaikh would often say, “There was a servant of God to whom I used sometimes to teach the word of God, and he used to understand it. Now that he is gone to whom shall I speak of it?” When I, the compiler of these historical selections, paid my respects to the Shaikh, Shaikh ‘Abdu-’r-Razzaq, who was both his brother-in-law and father-in-law to him, was generally in conversation with him, and sometimes, but rarely, the Shaikh would go to see (or would go out walking with) Shaikh Muhammad also, his true deputy (or successor), who now adorns the prayer carpet of the Shaikh with his presence, sitting as his successor.