The Rashīdī History 204: CHAPTER LXXXIII. · GENEALOGY AND LIFE OF HAZRAT KHWAJA KHAVAND MAHMUD SHAHAB-UD-DIN. · (He is always spoken of in this book as Hazrat Makhdumi Nura.)

The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 204

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CHAPTER LXXXIII. · GENEALOGY AND LIFE OF HAZRAT KHWAJA KHAVAND MAHMUD SHAHAB-UD-DIN. · (He is always spoken of in this book as Hazrat Makhdumi Nura.)

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He received the name of Mahmud from his father, and that of Shahab-ud-Din from his grandfather. Out of veneration they gave him the name of Khwaja Khavand Mahmud . . . .

I have heard Hazrat Makhdumi Nura relate that when his father died he was twenty-seven years of age. He had heard his father say: "In Shahr-i-Sabz of Samarkand there is a garden, and in the garden a mulberry tree; and Khwaja Baha-ul-Hakk wa nd-Din Nakhshband used to sit leaning against that tree. Hazrat Ishan, on account of this blessing, bought the garden. In front of the tree is a tank. One night, on the edge of the tank, Hazrat Ishan related to Khwaja Ubaid-ul-Hadi and myself as follows: 'During the lifetime of Hazrat Ishan I suffered from a weakness of the stomach, which the doctors of Mavara-un-Nahr were unable to cure. I then went into Khorasan, where the Shaikh ul Islam, Maulana Abdur Rahman Jami, brought me to his own house, and in his service I remained [for some little time]. I studied some of his tracts under him.' I learnt that he had received his education at the hands of Bandagi Maulavi [Jami], and from the pamphlet which I have copied into this book, it appears that Khwaja Nura read standard books under him. After the death of Jami, he went into Irak, where he enjoyed the society of Mir Hasan Yazdi and Mir Sadr-ud-Din. He next went and studied, for a period of six years, under Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Davani, and he also studied medicine under Maulana Imad-ud-Din, who was the most eminent physician, not merely in Irak, but in the whole world.

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Having completed his medical studies in Shiraz, he passed into Rum, where also he devoted himself to study. Thence he journeyed into Egypt. Having performed the pilgrimage [to Mekka], he embarked at Jadda, and went to India by way of Gujrat. Thence he repaired to Kabul, where Babar Padishah was at that time; and I, as already mentioned, was there also. These travels had occupied Khwaja Nura twenty-three years. When the Emperor took Samarkand, the Khwaja went thither, and on the Emperor's returning to Kabul, the Khwaja remained in Samarkand until the year 931, when he returned to Kashghar, as was mentioned. In those days he related: 'In Samarkand I saw, in a vision, Maulana Haji Kasim (one of Hazrat Ishan's servants) come with two horses, saying that Hazrat Ishan had ordered him to tell Khwaja Nura to take these two horses and go to Kashghar.' Before the Khwaja reached Kashghar my uncle was attacked by paralysis, but on his arrival the Khwaja, by means of his remedies, completely restored him to health. He stayed two years in Kashghar, where his associates were enriched by his blessings.

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Mansur Khan sent some persons to him, saying that no Makhdumzada had ever come to those comers [of the earth], Turfan and Chdlish, which were the residence of the disciples of his [spiritual] fathers; these people and this country had never been blessed by a visit from the Khwaja. As it would be difficult for his friends in those quarters to go to him, all their blessings would be upon him if he would come and honour them. The Khwaja accepted this invitation of Mansur Khdn, and set out for Turfdn, where he remained nearly three years, and brought blessings to those who associated with him. On the Khan's return from the Badakhshdn campaign, Khwdja Nura left Turfdn and stayed in Kdshghar to attend my uncle, who, as mentioned above, had become subject to fits of vomiting. Having again restored my uncle to perfect health, he proceeded to Yarkand. Here Khwdja Muhammad Yusuf, as has been related above, did not come out to greet him in the prescribed manner, from which circumstance a dispute arose, which terminated as already described. After this affair he went to Ydngi-Hisdr, in which place the Khdn also spent the winter, in order to wait upon his Holiness . . . . The Khwdja told me that after the death of Abdur Rahmdn Jdmi, he found under his pillow some rough copies, one of which he gave written out, to me; and I have copied it here. He gave me these passages in Ydngi-Hisdr in the year 937 [1530-31].

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At the end of the winter I went to Aksu, and there [found] the Khan and some of his adherents, high officials, nobles, and others. At their request the Khwdja wrote several pamphlets. One of these is the following, which I have copied out in full.