[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) › 305.2 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 305.2 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 305.2 - **Language:** English ### [305.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305.2) When I was in Kant-u-Gola in the service of Husain Khan this ode reached me one night in a letter from Miyan Jamal During my twenty-one years’ acquaintance with Ghubārī he has been constantly engaged in taking lessons in (what may be called) the middle standard, and he used to compel his teachers to make obeisance to him, and if they did not consent to do so he would not come for his lesson, and in the lessons received under these unfortunate conditions he never progressed beyond the elements of accidence. His taste in poetry may be estimated from the following verses : — “I love water, and the bath is my place, The bath-house is the house which is appropriated to me.” In imitation of the opening couplet which runs, “ I wish for one hair from the curled lock of my love. That is to say, I am an idolator, and I wish for a sacred thread.” He wrote the following: — “I wish to explain my grief to the dog of my love. That is to say, I am grieved, and I wish to explain my grief. ” The following verses are also by him : — “ From her eyes nothing but calamity reaches me. Nobody has ever such calamity.” A quatrain. “ Everybody who is afflicted by love Becomes acquainted with toil and grief ; Everybody who has found his way into love’s circle Revolves around calamity like a pair of compasses.” - [Previous: 305.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305.1) - [Next: 305.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305.3) - [Up: 305](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.305.2) · Pramāṇa