Muntakhab al-tawarikh 212: A Quatrain.

212

“I am he whose kingdom is the realm of words, The money-changer of wisdom is the appraiser of my threaded gems. The exordium “Be!” is but one leaf of my writings; The secrets of the two worlds are on the tip of my pen.”
In the year H. 979 (A.D. 1571-72) he obtained permission to depart from Hindustan and to go to his native land, and Shaikh Faizi, who was his pupil, found the date of his departure in the words “may his shadow be extended!” He went to Kabul and was received with consideration and honour by Mirza Muhammad Hakim, but when he presented his pishkash of merchandise, goods, valuables, and precious articles from India, he rose from his place and took the list of his presents from the hands of the registrar of complimentary presents and detailed and explained the quantity, quality and name of each description of cloth, even going so far as to give the price of each. The Mirza was much displeased at this breach of decorum, and, rising from an assembly with which he was disgusted, ordered that all who pleased should fall on the spoil and carry off what they could, so that in the space of an hour everything disappeared The Khwaja shortly after this died in Kabul.