when his knowledge of it was afterwards completely confirmed, he entrusted the divine charge committed to him to him whom his soul desired, but who appeared as though he were the seeker (not the sought after), returning from his soaring flight (of ecstasy) to ordinary intercourse (with his fellow creatures), and spread the mat of sojourning in the newly built town of Shīrgarh, near to Chatī, and half-way between Multān and Pattan, started a new order, the Qādirīyyah, which is midway between the two exalted orders, Sahrawardiyyah and Cishtiyyah, (blessings on them, all three, from God!) and in the Divine power and by means of close connection with the true God, he so carried forward* the work that the sound issuing therefrom will not die away until the sounding of the last trump. When Mullā Abdullāh of Sultānpūr, who was known as Makhdūmu-l-Mulk, girded his loins to strenuous efforts in uprooting the men of God, becoming the means of the death of several of them, he sent an imperial order in the name of Salīm Shāh Sūr, the Afghān, from Gwāliyār, summoning the holy Miyān among others, in obedience to which order the Miyān set out in haste with one or two attendants, and, meeting Makhdūmu-'l-Mulk, outside Gwāliyār, with marks of the greatest respect, alighted in a spot where he sat down with him, and where a beneficial conversation took place. The pernicious mischief-makers, as soon as they witnessed this conversation, fled away to every corner, so that they could not be discovered even by search being made. Makhdūmu-l-Mulk said, “Their report is not on this ground (alone) falsified.” After much talk and conversation the Shaikh asked “What was the real motive for summoning us religious mendicants?” Makhdūmu-l-Mulk replied, “I heard that your disciples, when performing the religious exercise of zikr, said "O Dā'ūd, O Dā'ūd!” The Shaikh replied “There has probably been some mistake in hearing, owing to a similarity of sounds, or else my followers must have said ‘O Wadūd, O Wadūd!’ In connection with this matter the Shaikh remained for a whole day, or a whole night, bestowing on him sublime exhortations and advice, and imparting to him precious knowledge and facts relating to God. Makhdūmu-l-Mulk was much affected and dismissed the Shaikh from that place with honour. On one occasion the austerity and piety of Miyān Hisāmu-'d-dīn of Talamba, may God have mercy upon him! (some