In his youth he served in the army, in the reign of Sulān Ibrāhīm Lodī,* but* when the Emperor Bābar conquered India he gave up that profession for a life of holy poverty, sacrificing all his ambition thereto.* He became a disciple of Shaikh Buhlūl, devoting himself to the service of God and to asceticism. From his spiritual instructor he learnt the proper use of some of the names of God in exorcism, and lived the life of a recluse in a garden, most of the trees of which had been planted by himself, shutting in his own face the door of entry into and exit from the houses of other men. They used to say that for more than thirty years his food had been nothing but milk alone, and that he never used pulse or any sort of food other than (milk). One day when Muḥammad Ḥusain Khān, accompanied by me, went to visit him, a cat came up to the Shaikh mewing piteously. The Shaikh said “This cat has cause of complaint, for you have wasted both her time and the time of the master of the house, ^26. causing it to be passed in frivolity, and distracting my heart.”