Muntakhab al-tawarikh 298: XC. Mir ‘Azizu-’llah.

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He came of the Saifi Sayyids of Qazvin and in book-keeping and penmanship he came first among accountants and scribes, and he also had some proficiency in those branches of learning which are not treated of in Arabic literature. He was for some time a divan-i-sa‘adat, and when Karoris were appointed throughout “The reflection of thy eye, heavy with the drowsiness of wine, hath fallen on the wine, Like a drunkard who, in his drunkenness, falls into the water.”
“The bud, in desire of thy lip, smiled not at the breath of the morning, But in order to see thy face opened the eye of its heart.”
“As I write my letter to thee the paper is wet with my tears. I weep in jealousy of the pen which writes thy name on the paper.”
He was, at all events, a mild and dignified man, of old-fashioned manners. He has now wholly accepted the Sufi doctrine of annihilation, and is become an old man nearing actual annihilation.