Muntakhab al-tawarikh 99.2.1

99.2.1

On one occasion the austerity and piety of Miyan Hisāmu-’d-dīn of Talamba, may God have mercy upon him! (some of whose glorious attributes are mentioned in the Najātu-'r-Rashīd) happened to be the subject of conversation in the noble assembly of the Shaikh, and he said “Ah, what a pity was it that the Miyan failed in personal desire of and love for God, and was the slave of mere morality:— Hemistich. “Thou hast kept one thing, and (many) things are lost to thee.” “Beware, at the last, from whom thou remainest apart.”