"When he was brought to the foot of the execution-pole, the headman raised his sword and smote him on the neck from behind. The blow only bowed his head, and caused the dervish's turban which he wore to roll some paces from him on the ground. Immediately as it were with his last breath, he sent a fresh pang through the heart of everyone capable of emotion by reciting these verses:

 
       `Happy he whom love's intoxication 
        So hath overcome that scarce he knows 
        Whether at the feet of the Beloved 
        It be head or turban which he throws!'"  
                 (The "Tarikh-i-Jadid", pp. 254-5.)