“Just then, a dervish in the congregation stood up, and begged that some one would bestow on him a handkerchief. “A merchant, who was seated in a corner of the mosque, thrice conceived the resolve to give the dervish a handkerchief; but thrice he failed to carry that design into effect. “That merchant now rose, and, addressing the preacher, said: ‘Sir, how does God speak to His servants? Pray explain this, that the method may be known unto us.’ “The preacher answered: ‘For one handkerchief, God does not speak more than three times!’ “The merchant was petrified. He cried aloud, and cast himself at the feet of the preacher. What he had thrice resolved to do, and had not performed, he now carried out, giving a handkerchief to the dervish, and professing himself a disciple to the preacher.” “Now,” added Sultan Veled, “I say unto thee, O grandee, do thou also hearken unto the words of God. Give the Indian handkerchiefs, and distribute also the money. When thou shalt have hearkened to the words of God, He will listen also to that which thou mayest say unto Him. All thou mayest ask of Him, God will give thee; and whatsoever thou seekest of Him, thou shalt find.” Forthwith that grandee became a sincere convert and disciple. Similar miraculous works of Sultan Veled are beyond all count. 5. Sultan Veled died on Saturday, the tenth day of Rejeb, A.H. 712 (11th November, A.D. 1312). He had as many as a dozen children by his wife Fātima, daughter of the Sheykh Salāhu-’d-Dīn Ferīdūn, the Goldbeater; but they all died in infancy, immediately after birth, or ere they were six months old. At length, on a Monday, the eighth day of the month of Zū-’l-Qa’da, A.H. 670 (6th May, A.D. 1272), his son and successor, Chelebī Emīr ‘Ārif, was born. Soon after his birth, or when only a few months old, the Emīr ‘Ārif, at the invitation of his grandfather, Jelālu-’d-Dīn, and in the hearing of a numerous circle of assembled friends, thrice pronounced, audibly and distinctly, God’s great name. His grandfather prophesied thence that he would be a very great saint, and would sit in the seat of his own successorship, after his father Sultān Veled. The Emīr ‘Ārif lived about fifty years, surviving his father, however, but the short term of eight or nine summers. CHAPTER VIII. _Chelebī Emīr ‘Ārif, Jelālu-’d-Dīn._ (Ninety pages of the volume by Eflākī give more than two hundred anecdotes of the acts and miracles, of various kinds, of this illustrious grandson of Jelālu-’d-Dīn, the teacher and friend of the author, who vouches as an eyewitness for the truth and correctness of some of the narratives. The Emīr ‘Ārif passed the far greater portion of his life in travelling about to various cities in central and eastern Asia Minor, and north-western Persia, countries then subject to the great Khāns, descendants of Jengīz. He appears to have been of a more energetic or bellicose character than his father, and to have ruled with vigour during his short Rectorship.)