Having delivered himself of this constructive reprimand, Jelāl left the college barefoot, and in high dudgeon. The chief people came after him to intercede, but he would not be pacified. Their intervention was declined, and he refused to be reconciled with the broiler, Akhī Ahmed. He would not consent to go near that offender, who died soon afterwards; though most of his sons, relatives, and even his fellow-revellers, became disciples of Jelāl’s.
The Sultan would have caused him to be put to death at once; but Jelāl would not permit that.
Akhī Ahmed was never again allowed to show himself at any public reception, and was shunned by all, like the wandering Jew.
Eventually, Husāmu-’d-Dīn was appointed rector of both the colleges in question; and Ahmed’s son, Akhī ‘Alī, was a disciple of Sultan Veled.
10.
Jelālu-’d-Dīn was of the school of Abū-Hanīfa; but Husām belonged to that of Shāfi’ī.[31] He thought of joining the Hanefī school, out of deference to his teacher. Jelāl, however, recommended him to remain what he had always been, and to strive to inculcate to all the doctrine of divine love, as set forth by Jelāl.
11.
After Jelāl’s death, his widow, Kirā Khātūn, suggested to her stepson, Sultan Veled Bahā’u-’d-Dīn, that he ought to have succeeded his father as Rector of the fraternity, and not Husām.
Sultan Veled answered that it had been his father’s bequest that Husām should succeed, that he himself had sworn the oath of fealty to Husām, and that Husām was now become a kind of spiritual beehive, through the incessant and multitudinous visitations of angelic ministers sent to him with messages from on high.