Muntakhab al-tawarikh 250: XXXVIII. HAIDARI OF TABRIZ.

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He has performed the pilgrimage to Makkah. He was the pupil of Lisani, and has written, in reply to the book Sahw-ul- Lisan (‘a slip of the tongue’) by his fellow pupil Sharif of Tabriz the Lisan-ul Ghaib (‘a voice from heaven’) in praise of Lisani. He was for some time in India and then left and returned, and again went away in such sort that he cannot return again. I have seen his divan, containing about 14,000 couplets but with very little good stuff among all these. In an ode describing the imperial elephants he has written:
“They were not mounds of driven sand— His elephants, for they are in battle array And, for the purpose of engulfing his foes They are, on every side, the billows of the ocean of calamity.”
As meed for this ode the emperor ordered that a horse and a money reward should be given to him, but the treasurer delayed in carrying out the order, and Haidari wrote this fragment—
“I have a difficulty, O King! I wish to present to thee a petition. My difficulty imprints on my heart a hundred brands of regret. Thou didst command silver and gold to be given to me, but from thy treasurer It is hard to get, and yet harder not to get.”
Some of his verses—
“No trust is to be placed in the love of the moon-faced beauties of this world. A ray of the sun settles not long on one place.”
“I burn ever with an inward fire, such it is. I am contemned everywhere, such is my miserable lot.”