[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawarikh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › 58.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 58.1 Muntakhab al-tawārīkh 58.1 - **Language:** Persian ### [58.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.58.1) جذبات شوق باطن به مکاشفت کشیده > Another is Maulana Baqai who wrote a Masnavi in the metre of the Makhzan-i-Asrar. At the moment I do not remember a single poem of his. Another is Maulana Shihabu-d-Din the Enigmatist, whose general learning was overshadowed by his special skill in the composition of enigmas, and at the time when Durmish Khan was appointed by Shah Isma'il Safawi Husaini to the Governorship of Khurasan, that prince of traditionists, Mir Jamalu-d-Din, the traditionist, one day while the preaching was going on, in dispelling the apparent contradiction between the sacred word ‘Verily your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days,’ and that true Hadis (tradition) that ‘He created the world in seven days,’ explained it in two ways, Maulana Shihabu-d-Din refuted it, by adducing one after another several excellent arguments and wrote a treatise on that subject, to which the learned divines of that time subscribed their signatures. The writer of these pages also on the same occasion wrote a few lines of prose and poetry, from which the following ruba'i is selected: Quatrain. This writing which has appeared like lawful magic, Its poetry and prose are purer than the purest water: It is a gleam from the brightness of " the brilliant Star," In describing whose dignity the tongue of meditation is struck dumb. The following enigma on the name Kashif is also by him. Quatrain. > — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) - [Previous: 57.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.57.1) - [Next: 59.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.59.2) - [Up: 58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.58) ## Translations (1) - [Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.58.2) — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.58.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.58.1) · Pramāṇa