Twilight of the Sultanate c17.s3.29

c17.s3.29

³⁵ Shaikh Farīduddīn Shakargunj married four wives and had five sons and three daughters (R.Q., 3). Shaikh Qutbuddīn Saiyyad Husain Kirmānī, uncle of the author of *Siyārul-Auliyā*, used to put on garments of the finest Chinese silks and Kamkhwābs, and always used to have *pān* in his mouth (S.A., 188). Shaikh Nizāmuddīn also used to relish betel (S.A., 125). But on the whole the saints lived a life of simplicity. Poverty was their ornament (R.Q., 20), and because of impecuniosity Nizāmuddīn had to go without dinner on many a day. (S.A., 101).