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din Haidar on seeing him, said, " Shamsher Khan, where is now your 

 sword" ? In reply he recited these verses — 



Haman sber o sbamsber-i-burran man-am ; 

 Clia sazam, kib kabza na darad sar-am, 

 Wagarna tura, Elan o manat haris 

 Ba-yak-dam tab-i-kbak kardam 'adam. 



Having heard this answer, the prince said to the executioner " Behead 

 him." The executioner made a stroke but missed ; and again a second time 

 he missed. Turning to a Mughul standing by, Jalal-ud-din Haidar told 

 him to finish the affair. The Mughul hesitated, but at length drawing, he 

 made a cut at the neck and severed the head from the body at one blow. 

 Still reciting the words of martyrdom, the corpse moved ten paces towards 

 the Ka'ba and then stood still, the fingers of both hands continuing to <30unt 

 as before the beads of his rosary. The Mughul was amazed, and approach- 

 ing the corpse, placed his two hands on its back, saying, " Khan Sahib ! 

 " you are a martyr." On these words being pronounced, the corpse turned 

 to him and knelt. Then the Mughul began to weep and wail, saying, 

 " O Jalal-ud-din, the accursed ! I knew not that this man was the greatest 

 " saint of the age, unjustly have you murdered by my hand this man with- 

 out guile." Then striking his sword on a stone with such force that he 

 broke it, and rending his clothes, he fled into desert places. 



The prince then caused the five bodies to be thrown into a well, and 

 filled it tip with stones. Next morning by the power of the Almighty there 

 were found strewn on that well five fresh Chambeli flowers. Every day 

 they were replaced by other fresh flowers. At the time that Ahmad Khan 

 Durrani came to Delhi (1761), JSTawab Ahmad Khan went there accompa- 

 nied by 'Umr 'Ali Khan, son of the martyred Shamsher Khan. One day 

 his father appeared to him, and said — " It is now twelve years since I fell 

 " into a well here, take out my corpse and send it to Farrukhabad, there 

 " inter it in the mosque beneath the Jaman tree." 'Umr 'Ali Khan got 

 up crying bitterly, for at that time he was much hampered for money. He 

 could hit upon no plan to procure funds. A few minutes afterwards, 

 through the wisdom of the Causer of Causes, a money-lender, a friend of 

 his, came up and asked why he.wept. He repeated the dream, and that 

 good man lent him five hundred rupees. Stone masons were set to work at 

 the well, and when the corpse was taken up, the clothes looked quite whole, 

 but were in reality all worn and fell to pieces. The body was put into a 

 coffin and sent to Farrukhabad, where it was buried in the mosque beneath 

 the jdman tree. The following verse gives the year of Shamsher Khan's 

 death— 



Tarikb ba-guft hatif-i-ghaibe kib " nuzclah Ramzdn." 1163 H. 



