’One day I was conversing with the Durweish, Meer Nizaam, when he told me he could bring me to his door, from my own home, at any hour or time he pleased.  I was a little wavering in my belief of his power to do so, and offered some remarks that indicated my doubts.  “Well,” said he in reply, “you shall be convinced, my friend, ere long, I promise you.”

’A few evenings after this conversation had been held, I was seated on my charpoy, in meditation,—­my usual practice after the evening namaaz,—­when a sudden impulse seized my mind, that I must immediately go off to the Durweish who lived at the opposite extremity of this large city (Lucknow).  I prepared to set out, and by the time I was ready, the rain burst forth in torrents from the over-charged clouds.  Still the impulse was so strong that I cared not for this impediment even, which under ordinary circumstances would have deterred me from venturing out on a dark evening of storm; I wrapped myself up in my labaadah[15], took a stick and umbrella, and sallied forth in great haste.  On reaching the outer gate of my premises, the strong, feeling that had impelled me to proceed, vanished from my mind, and I was as strongly urged by an opposite impulse to retire again within my own habitation, where, if I reasoned at all, it was on the unusual changeableness of my fixed resolution, for I never thought about the subject of the Durweish’s prediction at the time.

’Some few days after this, I paid Meer Nizaam a visit, and after our usual embrace and salutations were over, he said to me, “Well, my friend, are you convinced by this time, that I have the power to bring you to me whenever I wish, by the preparations you made for coming on the evening of such a day?” (mentioning the time and hour accurately).

’"I remember well my desire to visit you, but why was I deterred from my purpose?” I asked.  The Durweish replied, “Out of pure compassion for the fatigue and pains it would have given you, had you come so far on such a night of rain and tempest.  My pity for you altered my wishes, and thereby your purposes.  I only wished you to be convinced, and perhaps you are so now."’

Meer Eloy Bauxh often speaks of this circumstance, and declares he has full confidence that the Durweish in question possessed the power of influencing the minds of others, or attracting them by his wishes to appear before him.

’This Durweish was once applied to by a Mussulmaun, who went regularly for many days in succession, to watch a favourable moment for soliciting advice and assistance in his then uneasy state of mind.  The Mussulmaun’s name was Hummoon[16], since designated Shah, a native of the Upper Provinces of Hindoostaun, in the Lahore district.  Hummoon occasionally passing near the river, had frequently observed, amongst, the number of Hindoo women, on their way to and from the place of bathing, one young female whose charms riveted his attention.  He sometimes fancied that