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Rh Saido and Gheho a third Jat called Siho accompanied him thither. On seeing them the tyrant resolved to put them to death for trespassing on his domain. He seized the Guru as the first victim of his rage. The Guru fell into a trance and sang the following:—

He to whom the Lord is compassionate and merciful, will do the Master’s work. That worshipper whom God causeth to abide by His order, will worship Him. By obeying His order man is acceptable, and shall then reach his Master’s court. He shall act as pleaseth his Master, and obtain the fruit his heart desireth; And he shall be clothed with a robe of honour in God’s court.

It is said that on hearing this hymn the tyrant desisted from his intention, and prostrated himself before the Guru. Saido gave him water to drink in which the Guru had washed his feet, and thus made him a Sikh, and ensured him deliverance.

The Guru on that occasion met a successor of Pir Makhdum Baha-ul-Din Qureshi, who had an extravagant idea of his own spiritual and temporal importance. On being assured of the man’s hypocrisy, the Guru uttered the following:—

The heart which relinquisheth God’s praises and magnification and attacheth itself to a skeleton, Receiveth a hundred reproaches by day and a thousand by night.

The Pir then fell at his feet, invited the Guru to abide with him and desist from his wanderings, upon which the Guru uttered the following reflection and instruction:—