[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) › 259 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 259: XLVI. MIR DAURI. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 259 - **Language:** English ### [259](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.259) His name is Sultan Bayazid, and his title Katib-ul-Mulk (‘scribe of the kingdom’). It is probable that nobody in Hindustan has written the nasta'liq hand better than he, and he has reasonably good taste in poetry. At the end of his life he obtained grace to perform the pilgrimage of Islam. The following verses are by him:— “At times thou art in my very soul, and at times in my afflicted heart, Such is thy levity that thou canst not remain in one place.” An ode. “Had I not been pampered by union with thee, I had never suffered so much now from parting with thee. The bird of my heart is burnt like a moth. Ah me! Would that I had never fluttered around that candle which illumines the night. Had I not brought blood to my eyes with the arrow of her eyelashes, I had never become a mark for her heart-piercing arrow.” A quatrain. “Since my love has departed from my sight, My heart’s blood flows from my afflicted eyes. She has gone from my sight, but not gone from my heart; Nay, surely this cannot be, For that which goes from the sight goes from the heart. One of the Mir’s pupils in calligraphy, who was also one of the writer’s companions, was Khwaja Ibrahim Husain the Ahadi (may God have mercy on him!), who was a well-born man of the city of Balut and closely related to Shaikh ‘Abd-ur-Rahman the Baluti of Lahor, who was, in his time, famed throughout the world as a religious leader and a follower of the saints. Khwaja Ibrahim Husain in the flower of his youth left this world of deceit for the abode of joy, to the infinite regret of his friends, and the writer suffered in one year, and within the space of a few days, the grief of losing him and the grief of losing Mirza Nizam-ud-din Ahmad, and these griefs renewed my regret for the loss of my old friends—a regret which grows stronger every day. ‘Alas, I see no remedy for my pain! I had some hope of union:—that is gone All my concerns are languishing, because I see that the promise of my friends is unfulfilled. ‘Alas! Misfortunes have crowded so thickly upon me that I have scarcely the strength left to bewail them. But what cause is there for bewailing, since we are all beneath one dome and have but to pass behind the veil to meet once more?’ The following chronogram was composed on Khwaja Ibrahim Husain’s death:— ‘In accordance with the command of the Ruler of the universe, In the month of Safar, Khwaja Ibrahim Husain Journeyed from this world of wickedness and dishonour, And the date of his death was found in the words, “Khwaja Ibrahim Husain.”’ - [Previous: 258](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.258) - [Next: 260](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.260) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.259](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.259) · Pramāṇa