Of the various omens which predicted my future greatness, one which most tended to raise my hopes was this; one day I went to pay my respects to the famous Saint Amyr Kelāl, and when I entered the assembly, I seated myself at the very lowest end of the room, (literally where the shoes are taken off); the Saint looked at me and said, “although this boy is in appearance so little and young, he is in fact, a great personage;” he then made room for me near himself, and after looking at and conversing with me for some time, he fell into a slumber; after he awoke, one of his servants presented to him a tray of bread and sweetmeats, he stretched out his hand, and having taken seven cakes and sweetmeats, gave them to me, saying, “eat a mouthful of each of these, in consequence of which, the _seven regions of the world_ shall become subject to you;”[35] I was astonished at these words, and the people of the assembly looked first at each other, and then on me, but through awe of the Saint, no one ventured to speak; I therefore folded up the cakes, and carried them to my father, who said to me, “Kelāl is a great personage, a descendant of the Prophet, a seeer of visions, and a worker of miracles, whatever he has told you of his visions, will certainly come to pass; take care of these cakes, and do not give of them to any body, but regard them as the greatest blessing from the blessings of that holy personage.” Some time after this event, my father went with me to pay his respects to the Saint, who said to him, O Prince; (_Here follows a line in the Jagtay Tūrky._) at this time there was a basket of nuts before him, he ordered my father to count them; after he had done so, he informed him that there were three hundred and seventy nuts, the Saint said, “each of these three hundred nuts signifies a year, the remainder are the number of Timūr’s posterity, which shall reign for three hundred years;” he then presented the basket to my father, which I took, and placed the nuts with the cakes; when I mentioned these circumstances to my mother, she took my head between her hands and blessed me: the cakes and the nuts remained in my possession for many years, during all which time my prosperity encreased. Some time after the affair of the nuts, my mother went also to pay her respects to the Saint, and was most graciously received, at length he said to her, (_Here follows a verse in the Jagtay Tūrky._) “Seventy of Timūr’s sons, grandsons, and descendants, shall reign for the term of three hundred years, provided that they make no change of (the Muhammedan) religion, but give currency to the faith of Islām; neither shall they vex nor injure the descendants of the Prophet, but do every thing in their power to give him satisfaction for the blessing he conferred on mankind; bounty shall be heaped upon bounty, and prosperity added to prosperity, as long as they continue to shew kindness to the relatives and descendants of his Holiness.”