“If thou eat to excess, thou becomest an unwieldy elephant;
But if with moderation, thou becomest another Gabriel;
If any person should give way to excess in eating,
Rest assured that he is also vile to excess.”
He abode in Khum during twenty-eight years, but removed in his latter days from the land of Iran into India: he remained some time in Patna, where, in the year of the Hegira 1027 (A. D. 1673), he took his flight from this lower elementary abode to the sphere of the mansions on high. Azízí observes:
“Whoever is wise, esteems this mortal coil the obstacle to union with God:
This life is the death of Durvishes: look on (the world of) reality as a friend.”
He continued eighty-five years united to the elements of body, during which time he never desisted from the practice of austerities. On this subject Hafiz of Shiraz observes:
“O! my heart, if thou once become acquainted with the lustre of austerity,
Like those who strike the smiling taper, thou canst give up thy head—