[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 236.4 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 236.4 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 236.4 - **Language:** English ### [236.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236.4) The opening couplet of that effusion, which even to quote is scurrility, is as follows: “Alas, for Dihli and its holy shrines, Alas, for the ruin of its palaces!” This satire extends to nearly two hundred and fifty couplets. One of the learned men of that city, Shaikh Muhammad Kambu by name, wrote an answer to the whole of it in the following two couplets:— “Nūru-d-dīn is such a blockhead That it must have been in folly that his father begat the fool. The babbling dolt has been struck on the head with a mallet, There is no (need to) answer his foolish chatter.” Praise be to God! These verses are equal to that world-famed fragment of the lord Maulavī Nūru-d-dīn ‘Abdu-l-Raḥmān-i-Jāmī (may his tomb be hallowed!) the opening verses of which are given below:— “Alas for the Love of God, and its ecstasy, It has consumed my heart with its scorching heat. Mine eye never glanced towards aught but God. My lot is cast with God and with His revolutions!” The worthy Maulānā Nūru-d-dīn fancied himself a second Jāmī, both as a story-teller and as a stylist. But how can there be any comparison between the two? “If in your actions you resemble not the virtuous, of what use is it to resemble them in name? “One who bore the title of Masīḥ restored sight to him who was blind from his mother’s womb, but another Masīḥ had himself but one eye.” - [Previous: 236.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236.3) - [Next: 236.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236.5) - [Up: 236](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.236.4) · Pramāṇa