Muntakhab al-tawarikh 99.2.2

99.2.2

The liberality and charity of the Shaikh's disposition were such that on certain fixed occasions, either once or twice in the year, he scattered abroad in promiscuous charity all the money and goods that he had received gratuitously, and he and his chaste wife kept nothing in the cell that was their dwelling but an earthen pot and a piece of old matting, and when he saw that his treasure-chest was full he would again in the same manner disburse its contents in promiscuous charity, and notwithstanding this (profusion), on the birth-day and feast-day of the holy Ghaus-i-A‘zam (may God be pleased with him!) all the needs of the pilgrims, whether of high or low degree, who, to the number of nearly a hundred thousand souls, more or less, were gathered together, were met by disbursements from the alms-chest of his hospice, and that profusion, praise be to God, is still continued, nay rather, is increased many fold Some of the auspicious utterances of his inspired tongue, the interpreter of divine truths, are as follows:— “In the name of God, the Director and Guide in the darkness of oceans and deserts.” I have many times seen and experienced the efficiency of this holy saying in positions of fear and danger. Another is— “Praised be He in respect of Whose Essence our thoughts are bewildered, “Praised be He in respect of the understanding of Whom our understanding soars.”