He was the orthodox successor of Khājagān* Khāja who was the true successor of the holy Khāja-yi-Aḥrār (may God sanctify their souls!). When Khāja ‘Abdu-'sh-Shahīd was born he was taken to the holy Khāja-yi-Aḥrār, who took him in his arms and said “He will be a wise man.” The revered Khāja was perfect both in outward appearance and in inward qualities.* He practised severe austerities,* striving much in the path of holiness, and was a compendium of all such perfection as man can attain to. The people acquired grace from the precious utterances of that model of virtuous men, being directed thereby in the path of righteousness and godly living.* He walked in the footsteps of the holy Khāja-yi-Aḥrār (may God sanctify his tomb!).

Coming from Samarqand to India he remained here for seventeen years, and in the year H. 982 (A.D. 1574-5) he said, “The time of my departure draws nigh, and I have been commanded to convey this handful of bones, of which I am composed, to the burying place of my ancestors in Samarqand.” He then set out for Samarqand, and on his arrival at Kābul it happened that Mīrzā Shāh Rukh had just taken the people of Kābul captive, and was returning with them to Badakhshān.* By means of the intercession of the Khāja nearly ten thousand persons obtained deliverance from the bonds of tyrants and oppressors. Two or three days after his arrival in Samarqand he bade farewell to this evanescent world,* and was buried beside his noble ancestors. The Khāja's dignity is so high* that there is no necessity to attempt to establish it by a recital of the wonders and miracles ^41. worked by that essence of perfect qualities. The writer of these lines saw from afar the comliness of the holy Khāja when he came to bid farewell to the Khalīfah of the age, on the occasion when the Imperial Camp, at the time of its return from Patna* had arrived* in the district of Bhūṅgāoṅ and Paṭiyālī* but I did not attain to the happiness of attending* on him, or to the good fortune of approaching* him. The peace of God be upon him and upon* his noble ancestors.