Muntakhab al-tawarikh 217: VIII. MIR IMAMI, known as MUGHBACA.

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He was a Sayyid of Kabul. In the year H. 981 (A.D. 1573-74) he fell from his horse in Jaunpur, and died of the injuries which he received. He wrote a divan and the following chronogram which he composed on the death of a graceful boy of rare beauty, named Sultan Caghatai, is well known:
“Sultan Caghatai was the rose of the garden of beauty, But death was his guide to the garden of Rizvan. In the season of roses he set forth to journey from this garden, Many hearts in mourning for him were drenched with their blood. I asked of the mourning nightingale the date of his death, He broke into lamentations and said, “The rose has left the garden.””
“How shall I compare thy stature to the letter alif, O palm-tree of life? For alif is quiescent while thy graceful form is ever in motion.”
“My heart in thinking on that sweet mouth is in the straits of perturbation, Perturbation has confronted it from the place in which it is bred.”
“Never do I forget thee, possessor of all sweet attributes. Though thou forget me, yet do I never forget thee.”