162 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1912. 
s head in Cancer. God knows the truth.! 
Some of the friends found the date [of my birth] in [the 
name] Azim al-Din (Eminent in religiom=a.n. 1115). My 
parents (may their hearts be purified) and a number of virtuous 
[men] noticed many good omens in respect of this poor self both 
before and after birth. 
Accordingly one of [my] affectionate relations and eminent 
friends has described those occurrences in detail with other 
events in a pamphlet and named it ‘‘ Qaul-i-Jali’’ (Prominent 
saying). May God give him the best return, and do good to 
him and to his predecessors and successors, and furnish him 
with what he wishes in the next world and this. 
When the fifth. year came I sat in Maktab (elementary 
wards came to light, that is, immediately after [my] marriage 
the mother-in-law of this poor self died, and soon afterwards 
[my] wife’s maternal grandfather, after that very soon Shaikh 
Fakhr al-‘Alam, the worthy son of this poor self’s maternal 
uncle, Shaikh Abi Riza Muhammad (may his heart be sanctified), 
breathed his last. Soon thereafter the mother of this poor 
self’s elder brother, Shaikh Salah al-Din. After that very soon 
my venerable father grew weak and complicated diseases over- 
powered, him and subsequently the horrible occurrence of his 

1 This expression is usually uttered by the Moslems when they wish 
to show their want of confidence in any assertion. The writer here 
: @ commentary on Ibn Hajib’s (died 
A.H. 646, A.D. 1248) well-known work on syntax entitled al-Kafiya, 
author of the commentary is ‘Abd al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Jami, died 
A.H. 898, A.p. 1492. 
3 Mutal‘a.—It is customary amongst Indian students to go through 
the lesson previous to attending the lecture of the teacher on the same. 
The writér here means to «: 
anything 
Sharh-i-Mr 
