ABSTRACT

Nawwāb Nizām al-Mulk was a student (tālib) of Nizām al-dīn and had complete discipleship and faith. One day Nizām al-Mulk held a celebration for a newly built house and invited him by giving him a note of supplication (raq‘a-ye-niyāz). But Nizām al-dīn sent the note back in decline, writing upon its back, ‘You are as a child and our dwelling place is full of colors (khāna rangīn ast).’ 1