Upon hearing the commands of Shah Jee, the women speedily departed, ejaculating blessings on the Durweish, his wife, and family.  On their return they purchased the sweetmeats and presented them to the Pattaan, who devoured them with eagerness, and immediately afterwards his former senses returned, to the no small joy of his family circle.  They inquired of him, what had been the state of his feelings during the time he was in that insensible state from which he was now happily relieved?  He replied, that the first gaze of the Durweish had fixed his eyes so firmly that he could by no means close or withdraw them from the object; the second glance detached his thoughts from every earthly vanity or wish; and that the third look from the same holy person, fixed him in unspeakable joys, transports pure and heavenly, which continued until he had eaten the sweetmeats they had presented, with a kind intention, he had no doubt, but which nevertheless, must be ever regretted by him whilst life remained; for no earthly joy could be compared with that which he had experienced in his trance.

The Durweish Shah Sherif ood deen, was asked by some one why he had selected the bazaar sweetmeats as a remedy in the Pattaan’s case?  He answered, ’Because I knew the man’s heart was corrupt.  The light which had been imparted to him could alone be removed by his partaking of the dirtiest thing mortals hold good for food, and surely there cannot be any thing more dirty than the bazaar sweetmeats, exposed as they are to the flies and dust of the city; and how filthily they are manufactured requires not my aid in exposing.’

This Durweish is said,—­and believed by the good Mussulmaun people I have conversed with,—­to have foreseen the hour when he should be summoned from this life into eternity; and three weeks prior to the appointed time, he endeavoured to fortify the minds of his wife and family, to bear with resignation that separation he had been warned should take place.  He assembled his affectionate relatives on the occasion, and thus addressed them, ’My dear family, it is the will of God that we should part; on such a day (mentioning the time), my soul will take flight from its earthly mansion.  Be ye all comforted, and hereafter, if ye obey God’s holy law, ye shall meet me again in a blessed eternity.’

As may be supposed, the females wept bitterly; they were distressed, because the good Durweish had ever been kind, indulgent, affectionate, and tender in all the relative situations he held amongst them.  He tried many soothing arguments to comfort and console them for some hours, but without in the least reducing their grief, or moderating their bewailings:  they could not, and would not be comforted.

‘Well,’ said the Durweish, ’since the separation I have predicted causes you all so much sorrow, it would be better, perhaps, that we part not.  I have thought of another method to avoid the pangs of separation; I will offer my prayers this night to the gracious Giver of all good, that He may be pleased to permit ye all to bear me company in death.’