[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) › 285 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 285: LXXIII. SADIQI Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 285 - **Language:** English ### [285](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.285) He was born in Qandahar but was a Hirati by origin. He was for some time in Hindustan and died. The following verses are his:— “So many wounds has my body received from thy sword That on whichever side I fall my heart falls to the ground.” “The wounded heart pays no heed to the body, The martyr of love has no need of a shroud. Since I have been created a man of straitened means Why have I no share in that mouth? Of my body little is left but a formless idea, and that too, When closely regarded, is seen to be no more than my shirt.” “On the day on which each man’s lot was decreed to him by fate, The lot of others was joy, while mine was sorrow. O my heart! Tell me not that that moonlike beauty comes in answer to my weeping: So many thousands of lamentations have I uttered, and when did she come?” What a pain is this, which has no remedy save the surrendering of one’s soul ! When the manifest fever of my love is not visible to her, How shall I inform her of my secret wounds ? When that moon-like beauty walks abroad in the night in vesture of the hue of the night The brightness of dawn may be seen where her dress opens at the neck.” “ I would that her breast could be cleft by my dagger That my pure heart might see whether her heart is pure.” “Her waist has entranced the hearts of men, Has completely made away with the hearts of men.” - [Previous: 284](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.284) - [Next: 286](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.286) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.285](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.285) · Pramāṇa