to remain in that monastery more than three days, he kept me there a fourth, and told me things, the sweetness of which still remains in my heart:— I go homeward from this door, But my heart is without choice: I lament so much that you would think I was going to a foreign country. The Biography of the Shaikh by Badoani in Vol III of MT Chatī or Jhenni (modern day Chunnian) is the chief town of a pargana in the District of Lāhōr. The Shaikh's noble ancestors came first from the land of the Arabs to Sītpūr, which is in the Multān country, and the holy Shaikh was himself born in that place. His noble father proceeded from this world to eternity before his birth, and his mother died very shortly after it, and he, left alone, as an incomparable pearl, was brought up under the guardianship of his elder brother, Miyān Rahmatu-'llāh. When they set him tasks in the reading of the Qurā'n, tears would sometimes flow over the surface of his blessed cheeks, and he would say, “Trouble me not in respect of this matter, but leave me unto God the Most High.” From this time they knew that he had no need of any acquired learning. Couplet. “What need had he of instruction in polite learning, “Who was himself from the first well learned therein?” They say that one of the two princes of both worlds, either Imām Hasan or Imām Husain, (may God be gratified with them!), it cannot be decided which, taught the holy Shaikh in a dream some verses from the first chapter of the Qur'an, and sometimes when he went, to refresh his heart, to watch the play of children, he would dejectedly and perplexedly watch them from afar, and would say, “I see their faces scratched, their bodies covered with blood, and their skin torn off, and some of them appear to me as though they had lost their heads.” When, after many temporal vicissitudes and various hardships, he came to the pargana town of Satgarah, and from there to Lāhōr, he commenced to study under Maulānā Isma‘īl of Uch, who had received instruction from his highness the lord Maulavī ‘Ārif-i-Jāmī, (may God sanctify his tomb!), and in early youth he read the commentary of Isfahānī with such critical acumen,* that the best students from among the natives of the