Muntakhab al-tawarikh 279.1

279.1

He comes from a village called Kokūwāl in the Panjāb. His father belongs to the Majis, a large and well known tribe, and he used to say that his mother was a Sayyid by race. Although he is not of noble blood he has a disposition sufficiently noble, and leads a well regulated life. He studied under his father, Maulānā Yaḥyā, who wrote an ode with this opening couplet:— I have bound my letter to thee with a white thread to signify That in my separation from thee no blood remains in the veins of my soul.”
“Deprived of thy face my existence is a sea of pain and grief, My ribs are the waves of that sea.”
“She comes to slay me, with the sword of cruelty in her hand. Whatever men relate of injustice is committed by that cruel one. In the abundance of its hopefulness the heart believes that a messenger comes from Shirin To the unfortunate Farhad even though it be Parviz himself that comes.”
“Wherefore, O tear, dost thou traverse my eye When I bid farewell to my dear? Where wert thou then, that thou now obscurest my sight? O Zephyr, my beloved has entirely filled the mould of my desire, I am thy devoted servant, but thou wanderest overmuch in her street.”
The following few couplets are from an ode of question and answer by him:—
“I said, ‘O heart, what is the cause of this change in the condition of the world?’ My heart replied, ‘Silence, the brain of heaven is thrown into confusion.’