تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 7.2.5

7.2.5

I was extremely astonished at this, then I thought of the man who had carried me on his shoulders and I remembered what the saint Abu ‘Abdallah al-Murshidi had told me, as I have related in the first journey, when he said to me: “You will enter the land of India and meet there my brother Dilshad, who will deliver you from a misfortune which will befall you there.” I remembered too how he had said, when I asked him his name, “Joyous Heart” which, translated into Persian, is Dilshad. So I knew that it was he whom the saint had foretold that I should meet, and that he too was one of the saints, but I enjoyed no more of his company than the short space which I have related. The same night I wrote to my friends at Koel to inform them of my safety, and they came, bringing me a horse and clothes and rejoiced at my escape.