The Rashīdī History 197.4

197.4

All my warnings and reproofs were in vain, and after this our friendship began to cool. When he came back [from his flight into Badakhshan] the Khan sent me to order him away again. [On our meeting, Baba Sultan] began to make profuse excuses and apologies and to profess regret that he had turned a deaf ear to my counsels. [Verses]. . . . Seeing him thus sad and repentant, I hoped he might persist in reforming his conduct, but on reaching India, a change for the worse came over him, and on account of his former evil associations, he never again mended his ways. [Verse]. . . . His body was carried from Ruhtak to Badakhshan, and was buried in the tomb of Shah Sultan Muhammad Badakhshi—his grandfather on his grandmother's side.