Husāmu-’d-Dīn had a gardener, whose name was Sheykh Muhammed. About four years after Jelāl’s death, Husām had reason to reprimand the gardener, who took offence at this, and went away to another garden, resolved never to return to Husām’s service.
As he sat reflecting, he fell asleep. In his dreams he saw Jelāl coming towards him, with an executioner by his side, who held up an axe. Jelāl ordered the executioner to cut off Muhammed’s head, as the punishment for his having offended Husām.
This was done; and Muhammed saw his own head fall off, and his own blood flow. He knew that he was dead.
After a while he saw Jelāl return, pick up Muhammed’s decapitated head, place it in proper junction with the neck of the corpse, and utter the exclamation: “In the name of God, with God, from God, and to God.” Muhammed saw himself instantly alive again, felt very penitent, threw himself at Jelāl’s feet, and cried out piteously.
He now awoke and arose. No one was in sight. All traces of blood had vanished, and no sign of a wound was discernible on his neck. In all speed he returned to Husām’s garden, and resumed his work with alacrity.
But now he saw Husām approaching, who said to him: “Well, Sheykh Muhammed! Until Jelālu-’d-Dīn chastised thee, thou wert no Muslim, and wert given over to stiffneckedness. Had not I interceded for thee, thou hadst been dead to all eternity, shut out from every hope of heaven.”
Muhammed protested his sincere repentance, became a dervish, and professed himself a disciple.
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When Husāmu-’d-Dīn had faithfully executed for ten years, as a just and wise steward, all his duties as successor to Jelālu-’d-Dīn, he one day went, with his companions and disciples, to visit the shrine of his predecessor.
As he drew near to the mausoleum, information was brought to him that the gilt crescent surmounting the cupola had fallen down.