Muntakhab al-tawarikh 294.3

294.3

As his birthplace was Gulbahār, a village in the district of Kābul, he wrote for some time under the poetical name of Bahārī, but afterwards, having recognized that the name was unbecoming, as it called to mind the names borne by servant girls, he changed it, and called himself Rabī‘ī. The motto which he composed for his seal was, “He had a well-ordered mind.” The following few couplets are quoted as a memorial of him:— “That eye in which I delighted every moment flees away, It may be that I shall place a straw from her wall upon it.” “The glass of delight has been shattered, with whomsoever I sat; The bond of fellowship has snapped, with whomsoever I bound it. She has risen to slay me, with the sword of hatred in her hand, Whenever I sat in kindness with anybody for a moment.”