Muntakhab al-tawarikh 247: XXXV. Cishti.

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He is Shaikh Husain the Sufi, whose native place is Dihli, and as he is a disciple of Shaikh Salim Cishti he has chosen this poetical name. He was one of the Sufi members of the monastery at Fathpur, otherwise known as Sikri. He has composed a divan and is the author of several works, one of which is The Book of the Heart and the Soul written in verse, but in an Indian style, and since its purport is the same as that of the book “Beauty and the Heart,” in which the master Mir ‘Ali Shir has displayed his verbosity, it would be a pity to soil one’s tongue with the mention of it.
Perhaps this opening couplet is the only one of several thousands of Couplets written by Cishti which is worthy of mention:—
“Such love has Qais for the peacock’s feather That it would seem that he believes its eye to be the footprint of Laila’s camel.”