292 Arabic and Persian Inscriptions in the BJigli District. [No. 4, 



But after buying them, they must not look in them on their way to 

 the dargah ; " else misfortunes will surely befall them, as was the 

 case with a man who some time ago, while on his way to Mulla 

 Simla, fell down dead, because he looked at his face in the glass 

 which he had bought for the saint." 



This curious custom of offering up looking-glasses seems to be 

 connected with the birth-place of Shah Anwar. Aleppo was for- 

 merly famous in the East for its glass wares. 



The inscription is on black basalt, in Tughrd characters, and 

 is fixed over the entrance to the Dargah, although it must have be- 

 longed in former times to the mosque. The old mosque itself has 

 at present no inscription. 



Inscription VIII. (Arabic.) 

 ajJLc^jJJf j IS . |^t alJi £xj \yo3 AU <sJJ A^U+Jf ^( ^JUj <sJJi JlS 



God has said, ' The mosques belong to God. Worship no one else besides 

 God.' [Qoran LXXII, 18.] 



The Prophet — upon whom be peace — has said, ' He who builds for God a 

 mosque on earth, will have seventy castles built for him by God in Paradise. 

 [HatJ/s.] 



This mosque was built by the great Khan Ulugh Mukhlic Khan, in 

 the year 777 [A. D. 1375.] 



If, as the Khadims say, the ambassador got rid of certain diffi- 

 culties by praying at the tomb, one might think that he would 

 have shewn his gratefulness by mentioning the saint's name 

 on the inscription ; but the slab mentions neither Shah Anwar, nor 

 the king who reigned in 777 [Sultan -ussalatm]. 



I owe this inscription to the kindness of Maulawi 'Abdul Hai, of 

 the Calcutta Madrasah. 



C. Sa'tga'nw. 

 Inscription IX. (Arabic.) 

 (N&Qir Husain Shah's Mosque.) 



