ABSTRACT
Núh Nabí. Lal Beg, however, is identified by Sir H. Elliot130 with Lál Guru, the same as the Rakshasa Aronakarat; but in Benares131 he is confounded with Pír Zahr, perhaps the famous Chishtíya saint, Sayyíd Sháh Zuhúr. In the Punjab, again, Mihtars adore Lál Pír, or Bábá Faqír, as the dyers do Pír Alí Rangrez, and the blacksmiths Hazrat Dáúd. It is not improbable, therefore, that the Lalbegí, like many other tribes converted to Muhammadanism, have adopted a Muhammadan saint as their common ancestor around whom many idle traditions have been grouped.132
