Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s4.3
Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s4.3
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v1.c10.s4.3
∗ An ancestor of Ahmad Shāh was a disciple of the saint Khwājah Abu Ahmad Abdāl of the Chishti order, and so pleased his master by his devotion that the holy man blessed him and called him *Abdāl*, a word which means a man free from earthly bonds by reason of his close communion with God. The conqueror Ahmad Shah took the title of *Durr-i-durrāni* or 'Pearl among Pears'; and hence his dynasty is also called *Durrāni* [Husain Shāhi, 6.]