He is one of the descendants of Shaikh ‘Abdu-'l-Qādir the
second, of Ucch, who was entitled his holiness Ghau-i-Rabbānī
(may God be graciously pleased with them!). Shaikh ‘Abdu-'l-Qādir
and his younger brother, Shaikh Ilāh Bakhsh, were both
educated in piety, devotion, and temperance, and were distinguished
for their mental perfections. They lived for some time
in Fatḥpūr, and the emperor, at the time when religious controversy
waxed warm, extended his patronage to Shaikh Ilāh
Bakhsh, and appointed him to Gujarāt with the title of Ṣadr,
and sent him to Shāhbāz Khān.*
This was, in fact, banishment.
The Shaikh, however, rendered good service to the state, and
constantly*
sent express messengers with representations containing
full news*
of the rebels, and other matters, so that a commission
was issued, granting him the rank of commander of three
hundred. But just then the messenger of death delivered in his
ear the joyful message, “Return thou to thy Lord,” and he
responded cheerfully to the messenger of God. His elder brother,
Shaikh ‘Abdu-'l-Qādir, was then banished to the glorious city
of Makkah, and at the time when the Khānkhānān, son of
Bairām Khān,*
and Mīrzā Niāmu-'d-dīn Aḥmad had the control
of affairs in Gujarāt, he went thither, and having obtained from
them provisions for his journey and attached himself to a company
of pilgrims he obtained the glory of performing the
pilgrimage of the Ḥajj. Thence he returned to his own native
place, Lāhōr, where he now lives,*
engaged in the service of God
and in devotion, and remaining steadfast in the same.