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H. Beveridge —The Khurshid Julian Niimd of 
Shaikh Alau-l-haqq wa ad-din. 
He was the son of Asa‘d of Lahore, father of Nur Qutb, and the 
spiritual successor of Shaikh Siraju-d-dra Usman, otherwise Akin 
Siraju-d-din. He belonged to the wealthy and powerful classes, 
and they say that when Shaikh Akhi Siraj obtained the khalifat 
(successorsliip) from Nizamu-d-din Auliya and departed for Ben¬ 
gal, he represented that a man of knowledge and rank lived there, 
and asked how he should manage with him. Nizamu-d-din re¬ 
plied, “ Do not be anxious, he will be your servant, (Khadim).” 
And so it turned out. They say that Shaikh Siraju-d-din used to be car¬ 
ried about 1 the country, and that cooked food used to be taken along 
with him, and that his servants would put a hot pot on Shaikh Alau- 
1-haqq’s head, so that his hair got all burnt off. And he had to 
pass in this guise before the houses of his relations who were kings’ 
ministers. 
Shaikh Alau-l-haqq spent much. The king of the country was 
jealous, and said “ my treasury is in the hands of the Shaikh’s father, 
he gives to the Shaikh.” So he ordered that the Shaikh be turned out of 
the city, and sent to Sonargao. He was there for two years, but told his 
servant 2 (Khadim) to spend every day twice as much as before. He did 
so, and so the Shaikh spent very much, and yet no source of income was 
apparent. He had two gardens from his ancestors, of which the income 
was 8,000 tankhas , but some one seized them, and he made no remon¬ 
strance. He made presents without end, and used to say “ I don’t spend 
a tenth part of what my Makhdum (Shaikh Akhi otherwise Shaikh 
Siraju-d-din) possesses.” 3 
He died in 800 (1398), but in a book in the possession of the 
1 The word is suwari, and may mean horseback, or a litter. 
2 I presume that this was an instruction to the servants left behind at Panclua. 
3 I am not sure, if I have translated this sentence correctly. According to 
Ferishta, 1. c , II., p 748, three lines from foot, it was Nasiru-d-din Audhi, commonly 
known as the Lamp of Delhi, who comforted Shaikh Akhi. Ferishta says that, though 
Shaikh Aklii was deputed to Bengal by Nizamu-d-din Auliya, he returned to Delhi 
after Nizamu-d-din’s death, and received his inyestiture and the khalifat of Bengal 
from Nasiru-d-din. Shaikh Akhi, whom Ferishta calls Shaikh Akhi Siraj Parwana, 
represented to Nasiru-d-din his difficulty about Alau-l-haqq, and Nasiru-d-din said 
to him in Hindi “ Turn u'par , we tal, i. e., you are superior, he is inferior.” And 
then Ferishta tells how, when Shaikh Akhi returned to Bengal, Alau-l-haqq at first 
treated him with disdain, but afterwards repented and humbled himself. It may 
be worth noting that Nasiru-d-din and Shaikh Akhi were fellow-countrymen, both 
coming from Oudh. 
The date 800 is given as that of Alau-l-haqq’s death in the Riyazu-l-auliya of 
Bakhtawar Khan, Brit. Mus. Catalogue, &c. 1745, p. 975. 
