Declining a Royal Gift
This excerpt from a sufi text describes the proceedings at Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya’s hospice in 1313 : I (the author, Amir Hasan Sijzi) had the good fortune of kissing his (Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya’s) feet ... At this time a local ruler had sent him the deed of ownership to two gardens and much land, along with the provisions and tools for their maintenance. The ruler had also made it clear that he was relinquishing all his rights to both the gardens and land. The master ... had not accepted that gift. Instead, he had lamented: “What have I to do with gardens and fields and lands ? ... None of our ... spiritual masters had engaged in such activity.”
Then he told an appropriate story: “... Sultan Ghiyasuddin, who at that time was still known as Ulugh Khan, came to visit Shaikh Fariduddin (and) offered some money and ownership deeds for four villages to the Shaikh, the money being for the benefit of the dervishes (sufis), and the land for his use. Smiling, Shaikh al Islam (Fariduddin) said: ‘Give me the money. I will dispense it to the dervishes. But as for those land deeds, keep them. There are many who long for them. Give them away to such persons.’”
Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \text{List-I (Soil component)} & \text{List-II (Definition)} \\ \hline (A)~\text{Azonal soils} & (I)~\text{An individual natural aggregate of soil particles.} \\ (B)~\text{Regoliths} & (II)~\text{Organisms living in the soil or ground} \\ (C)~\text{Ped} & (III)~\text{Soils have uniformity from the top-surface to the base, and do not have well-developed soil horizons.} \\ (D)~\text{Edaphons} & (IV)~\text{Zone of loose and unconsolidated weathered rock materials.} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \text{List I Content of humus} & \text{List II Percentage of contents} \\ \hline \text{(A) Carbon} & \text{(I) 35-40\%} \\ \hline \text{(B) Oxygen} & \text{(II) ~5\%} \\ \hline \text{(C) Hydrogen} & \text{(III) 55-60\%} \\ \hline \text{(D) Nitrogen} & \text{(IV) 15\%} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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