تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.42.1

13.42.1

When the news of my renouncing the world reached the Sultan, he summoned me; he was then at Sīwasitān. I came before him in the dress of the poor, and he spoke to me most kindly and graciously and wanted me to return to service, but I refused and asked his permission to travel to the Ḥijāz. He granted it, and I left him and stayed at a hospice