Muntakhab al-tawarikh 233: XXII. Pairavi.
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 233
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He is for the most part an imitator of Khwaja Asafi. He is a skilful painter and has attained by means of studying the outward form to hidden truths, and has written on outward form and hidden essence a poetical treatise which begins as follows —
“O Lord, I am unable to grasp hidden truth! Forgive me, for I am too much a worshipper of the outward form. Of thy grace, O most Pure God! Thou hast so fashioned the outward form of our earthly tabernacles That every (fair) form which I see Points out to me the way to the hidden truths of Thine Essence.”