Muntakhab al-tawarikh 248: XXXVI. Ja‘far.

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He is a Sayyid of Hirat and has good taste in poetry and in the composition of enigmas. He was the chief paymaster of Ataga Khan and has written an ode and composed an enigma dedicated to Mirza ‘Aziz Kuka, containing a list of his titles and prayers for his long life and prosperity. The following few couplets are selected from his poems:— Now that the comb has disturbed those musky locks Ah, that the wind would bear this message to thine ear!” “I would not that the dust, even of musk, should settle on that cheek, God forbid that dust should have a place near thy heart.” “The place of herbage in the garden is beneath the foot of the rose. In the garden of thy beauty * * * * * herbage has settled on the rose.”