Salīm Shāh used to call him Shāh Mubārak, and used to place his shoes before his feet. The Shaikh generally claimed to be a Sayyid, and was in great repute among the Afghāns. Thus when their power was on the wane and they were fleeing before the Mughuls some of the Afghāns seized Shaikh Islām* of Fatḥ-pūr suspecting him of being a wealthy man, and, having con­fined him in a strange manner, carried him off to the fort of Rantambhor. Shaikh Mubārak went thither from Alwar by way of Basāwar, and was the means of Shaikh Islīm's* liberation.

Shaikh Mubārak twice attained the honour of performing a pilgrimage to the glorious ka‘bah.

I was sixteen years of age at that time when, in company with my venerated father, I paid my respects to the Shaikh in Basā-wār, and after that, in the year H. 987 (A.D. 1579), when the ¹¹⁰ emperor was returning from his pilgrimage to Ajmīr at which the whole of the Qur'ān was read, and was journeying to Fatḥ-pūr by way of Alwar, I was again honoured by an interview with the Shaikh. He had, in truth, reached perfection and was most liberal and open-handed. It is now* reported that he has recently, at the age of ninety years, bidden farewell to this transitory world.