Muntakhab al-tawarikh 160.1

160.1

When the heart in calling loved ones to remembrance blossoms like the rose it is not becoming that the dust of vexation should reach or settle upon the hearts of friends even though the account of their lives be somewhat prolonged. Miyan Kamalu-d-din Husain is the worthy son of Maulana Hasan of Shiraz who at the time when Shah Isma‘il was expelled from Shiraz went to Makkah the glorious, and on his return thence came to Gujarat in the reign of Sultan Sikandar Lodi, and, accompanying the caravan of Sayyid Rafi‘u-d-din the traditionist, and Miyan Abu-’l-Fath of Khurasan, the father of Miyan Budh, he took up his residence in Agra. The famous and well-known Shaikh Zainu-d-din praises him as follows : — “ My verse is of both reason and tradition, therefore I would that it should be hearkened to By him who combines the knowledge of sciences both of reason and tradition, Maulana Hasan.”