“The Sheykh returned forthwith to his party of fellow-travellers, and gave orders for their beasts to be at once reloaded for an immediate return to Damascus. On being questioned as to his reason for this sudden change of intention he answered: ‘My people still think of me as ”_little Abū-l-Lays_,” and will treat me with familiar indignity accordingly, esteeming me of small account, and thereby committing a grievous sin; for it is an incumbent duty on all to honour the learned and the wise. To respect them is to show reverence to the apostle of God, and to revere him is to serve the Creator.’ “Now, the truth was that, when a child, his father had always called him ‘little Abū-’l-Lays.’ But strangers would not so understand that term of endearment; they would think it one of too free and easy familiarity, and as likely to draw down on the city and its inhabitants the divine displeasure. It was not consistent with true affection to allow the possibility of such a visitation to occur.” 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. 12. 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.