Muntakhab al-tawarikh 295: LXXXV. Mir ‘Abdul Hayy of Mashhad.

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He was for some time Sadr under the emperor Humayun and his brother, Mir ‘Abdullah the jurist, was one of Humayun’s intimate and specially honoured confidants. Both brothers were endued with piety, sanctity, and regularity of life.
Mir ‘Abdul Hayy was expert in writing the Babari hand, which was invented by the emperor Babar, who sent to the honoured city of Makkah a copy of the Qur'an written in that hand, of which no trace now remains. In the memoir of Mir “Thou mayst have seen, from a copy of the Tajdid, That a new favour has newly arrived In which are concealed a hundred stages of the pilgrimage, And from the contents of which great enterprises are manifest. The text of the Tajrid is halting beside it, Its rose-garden has lost its colour from want of water. Its splendour, without dissimulation and without exaggeration, Is perfect wisdom, the wisdom of the sunrise. And of that book, the attributes of which are beyond telling, Dalālat ul-‘aql is the name and description. And that pearl which has come from the ocean of generosity, Is the Lujjat-ul-jūd fī’l-wujūd. I am the compiler of that ‘Awālim-ul-āsār, From the instructions of the keeper of chronicles, Whose praises are sung by all those who have attained perfection; India has been conquered merely by thy footstep within her bounds, Thy title is, Muhammad Hindal!”
Mir ‘Abdul Hayy, who also had a childish nature, wrote, in reply, the following quatrain:—
“O thou, at whose door a thousand monarchs like Caesar hold their crowns, Whose praises exercise their tongues evening and morning! May all the confines of the world, O Lord, Be under the sway of the king of the world, Muhammad Akbar!”