73.
At Damascus, when a young student, Jelāl was frequently seen by others to walk several arrow-flights’ distance in the air, tranquilly returning to the terraced roof on which they were standing.
Those fellow-pupils were among his earliest believers and disciples.
74.
A friend of Jelāl’s once took leave of him at Qonya, and went to Damascus. On his arrival there, he found Jelāl seated in a corner of his room. Asking for an explanation of this surprising phenomenon, Jelāl replied: “The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”
75.
Jelāl once met a Turk in Qonya, who was selling fox-skins in the market, and crying them: “Dilku! Dilku!” (Fox! Fox! in Turkish.)
Jelāl immediately began to parody his cry, calling out in Persian: “Dil kū! Dil kū!” (Heart, where art thou?) At the same time he broke out into one of his holy waltzes of ecstasy.
76.
In the time of Sultan Veled (A.D. 1284-1312), a young man, of the descendants of the Prophet, and son of the guardian of the holy tomb of Muhammed at Medīna, came to Qonya with a company of his fellow-descendants, belonging to that city. He was presented to Sultan Veled, and became his disciple.