XXIII. SHAIKH ‘ABDU-'L-QĀDIR.

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 Niāmu-'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.