Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 207
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 207 The more I tried to make him understand that I did not get any such recipe, the more he became certain about my miserliness. I told him repeatedly that I had no knowledge of it. But he again started over praising me, and stressed that he had spent his whole life to find it and continued asking me to tell him about it and not be a miser. When I was fed up with his insistence, Allah, the Almighty guided me to a response and I told him, “Though I have become Khalifah in his place, but as you know, I have not inherited any property of Hadrat Maulaw i Sahib ra. He asked who inherited the property. I told him that his sons did. I further told him that he had a big library, which I did not get, so when I got neither his property nor his library then how could he tell me that recipe of alchemy? If he had given it to somebody, it would have been given to his sons. Go to them and ask them to tell you that recipe. ” In this way he left me. Abdul Hayee (deceased) was alive in those days. He went to him and asked him to give that recipe of alchemy. He asked, “Recipe of what type”. “The same recipe of alchemy that your father knew,” said the hakim. He was perplexed as to what to say. At last he gave the same reply that he had no knowledge of any recipe. When he failed, he again came to me and told me that the father’s miserliness was also present in his son. I said, “You are free to think whether he is miserly or not, but I am only a Khalifah and have received only what pertains to it,