“In respect of rose-water and the rose the decree of fate
from time without beginning has been this,
“That the former is a courtesan of the market-place, and
the latter a chaste and curtained dame.”

And at that time he left the world, and it is certain that, preserving his faith intact, he retired to the garden of Riẓwān.* The venerable age of the holy Shaikh extended to more than eighty years, and even at that great age he begat children, and ^24. his departure from this abode of decay took place in the year H. 979 (A.D. 1571-72).