[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) › 71.2 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 71.2 Muntakhab al-tawārīkh 71.2 - **Language:** Persian ### [71.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.71.2) زین خط چون مور و لفظ شکرین از روی نظم > The down which encircles thy cheek is the cause of my distraction, Thy locks are the cause of my helplessness and distress, That dusky ringlet is bent upon my undoing, All these charms are the cause of my distraction. The following is also his: Come, for the sky has prepared for your pastime The sun as the golden gourd, and the crescent moon as the hook. Bairam Khan has a well-known qasidah with this same rhyme, but in a different metre, of which the following is the opening couplet:— Verse. Thy shaft has carried away the loop of the qabaq from its hook. Thy meteor, by the help of the crescent-moon has erased the form of the Pleiades. These two opening couplets are derived from the opening couplet of a qasidah by the celebrated Nisari Tuni. The death of Mulla Jahi took place in the year 956 H, and was due to some poison which a servant introduced into his cup. Another poet is Haidar Tuhia’i, a man of parts, and unequalled in the technicalities of harmony, he had a competent faculty for both poetry and music. He spent the greater part of his life in Hindustan. The lampoon upon the Maliku-l-munajjimin of the time of Humayun Padshah, which he wrote at Panjgah, is one of the marvels of the age, and a rarity for all time. > — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) - [Previous: 70.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.70.1) - [Next: 72.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.72.1) - [Up: 71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.71) ## Translations (1) - [Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.71.9) — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.71.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.71.2) · Pramāṇa