تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.54.1

13.54.1

بعث إلي السلطان يوما وأنا عنده بالحضرة فدخلت عليه وهو في خلوة وعنده بعض خواصه ورجلان من هؤلاء الجوكية وهم يلتحفون بالملاحف ويغطون رؤوسهم لأنهم ينتفونها بالرماد كما ينتف الناس أباطهم. فأمرني بالجلوس فجلست، وقال لهما: إن هذا العزيز من بلاد بعيدة فأرياه ما لم يره! فقالا: نعم، فتربع أحدهما ثم ارتفع عن الأرض حتى صار في الهواء فوقنا متربعا، فعجبت منه، وأدركني الوهم فسقطت إلى الأرض! فأمر السلطان أن أسقي دواء عنده فأفقت وقعدت وهو على حاله متربع، فأخذ صاحبه نعلا من شكارة كانت معه فضرب بها الأرض كالمغتاظ فصعدت إلى أن علت فوق عنق المتربع وجعلت تضرب في عنقه وهو ينزل قليلا حتى جلس معنا، فقال لي السلطان: إن المتربع هو تلميذ صاحب النعل، ثم قال: لولا أني أخاف على عقلك لأمرتهم أن ياتوا بأعظم مما رأيت! فانصرفت عنه وأصابني الخفقان ومرضت حتى أمر لي بشربة أذهبن ذلك عني.

One day the Sultan sent for me while I was with him in the capital. I went in to him; he was in private, with some of his intimates and two of these Jūgīs, who wrap themselves in sheets and cover their heads, because they pluck out [their hair] with ash as people pluck their armpits. He ordered me to sit and I sat, and he said to them, “This honoured guest is from distant lands; show him what he has not seen!” They said, “Yes.” One of them sat cross-legged, then rose from the ground until he was in the air above us, sitting cross-legged. I was astonished at him, fear seized me, and I fell to the ground! The Sultan ordered that I be given a medicine he had, and I came to and sat up, while he remained as he was, cross-legged. His companion took a sandal from a bag he had with him and struck the ground with it as if angry; it rose until it was above the neck of the cross-legged man and began striking him on the neck, and he came down little by little until he sat with us. The Sultan said to me, “The cross-legged one is the pupil of the owner of the sandal.” Then he said, “Were I not afraid for your reason, I would order them to bring about greater things than what you have seen!” I left him and was seized with palpitations and fell ill, until he ordered a draught for me that took it away from me.