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1337.] C. E. Yate— Notes on the City of Hirat. 
(Here) he built monasteries and erected convents for offering praises 
and thanks to the Great Lord of the universe. 
This clear reservoir he constructed for the thirsty pilgrims of this 
threshold, for the sake of God’s pleasure. 
For years men derived benefit from this lasting work of utility, just 
as a thirsty cloud receives water of blessings from the river Nile. 
Because, like a boat for a long period, it received slaps of waves, it 
was at last made to sink down by the heavy burden (or, its base, at last, 
sunk down under the superincumbent mass),. 
As there is no constancy in the material objects, long age proved 
to be the cause of its ruin. 
One of the descendants of the monarch, a deceased lady, repaired 
it, in order to gain a perpetual reward and numerous blessings. 
(She is) the exalted cradle, the chastity of the world, the pearl of the 
casket of modesty, of whom there is no equal or like in the seraglio of 
her chastity. 
So long as each thirsty one drinks water once out of the reservoir, 
may the Great God quench her thirst with the water of Kausar , (one of 
the four springs of Paradise). 
0 Khazir ! L when I enquired of my experienced intellect about the 
year of its repairs, it suggested (as follows) : 
“ She has poured down for charity’s sake the water of the Salsabil 
(one of the springs of Heaven) into the reservoir of the Zamzam ” (the 
well-known well of Mecca). 
No. 2. 
“ And the angels called to him, while he stood praying in the arched 
niche.” (This is a text from the Quran, appertaining to Zachariya.) 
No. 3. 
That Xhaja, who is both externally and internally a king, is aware 
of the secret of the real state of both worlds. 
If you know, according to the Abjad reckoning, Fat is the year of 
the death of Khaja ’Abdu-llah. 
No. 4. 
In order that the cup-bearer of the divine knowledge may give 
your heart the liquor of wakefulness, come to the assembly of Khaja 
’Abdu-llah Ansari. 
The tombstone of his sepulchre is a beautiful cypress which, by its 
excessive beauty, has so moved the angels that they exclaim and cry like 
turtle-doves. 
1 Khazir—(caso address) - poetical name of tho writer. 
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