Muntakhab al-tawarikh 227: XVI. Umati of Yazd.

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He was well skilled in the exact sciences. He was a companion of the Khan-i-Zaman, and was captured in his rebellion. The emperor spared his life, but death, less merciful, took it from him. The following opening couplets of qasidahs are his: —
“Until like dust I settled on the skirts of the robe of my beloved, I had no rest from my wanderings nor ease at my heart.”
‘We are but a handful of ashes but we carry fire in us, It would be no wonder if we were consumed by the sparks of our own sighs.’
The Khan-i-Zaman gave him a thousand rupees as a reward for composing this latter couplet.