Muntakhab al-tawarikh 92.9

92.9

On the last day of Ramazan, in the year already mentioned, we were travelling rapidly at night with Husain Khan, from his companions of the late Husain Khan asked whose disciple Hafiz of Shiraz was, and he said, "He was the disciple of Khwaja Naqshband," (may God sanctify his soul!) Another, apropos of the same subject, asked "How was horse-flesh regarded in the religion of the greatest of the Imams?" (i.e., was it lawful food or not?) The Shaikh replied that the greatest of the Imams himself ate horse-flesh, and when he reached this couplet:— "The Sufis celebrate in one moment two ‘Ids (great feasts) As spiders make qurban of a fly."