XXII. SHAIKH ḤUSAIN OF BADAKHSHĀN.

He was one of the spiritual successors of the lord Shaikh Ḥusain of Kh'ārazm (may God sanctify his soul!). Religious ecstasy, overpowering him, used to reduce him to a state like inebriety. Daily, after early morning prayers, the Miṣbāḥ, written by Shaikh Rashīd (may God sanctify his soul!), used to be read in his venerable assembly, after the rule of the Kibrawī order, and he would then fall into a religious ecstasy, and in like manuer he was assiduous in reading the Manavī of the Maulavī-yi-Ma‘navī .* His feet were firm in the path of the most pure law, and his speech sprang ever from spiritual knowledge, and affected the hearts of his hearers. If at times one would praise him he would say, “It is yourself that you are regarding.”

He stayed some time in Badāon for the purpose of seeing some 101 Turks who had attached themselves to him as their spiritual leader, and made that place resplendent with the light of his presence, and the bounty of his blessed companionship reached the inhabitants of that district. Returning thence he came to Āgra, and thence hastened to the court of the great God.