Muntakhab al-tawarikh 232: XXI. Bayazi.
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 232
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He lived in Agra after the fashion of humble men and the style of bygone days. This opening couplet of a qasidah is his : — Whoever enjoys the fruits of union with that jasmine-bodied cypress Owes it to his good fortune. It is his good fortune that enjoys the fruit.”
On the discussion raised by Kahi and Ghazali he wrote the following quatrain —
“Kahi and Ghazali, those two drunken fools, Have put hand to pen to belittle Jami and Nawa'i. There has been nobody like them in the world, For Kahi is nought but straw and Ghazali is nought but a dog.”