Muntakhab al-tawarikh 308: XCIX. FĀRIGHĪ OF SHĪRĀZ.

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He was the brother of Shāh Fatḥu-’llāh who has already been mentioned. When he came for the first time to Hindūstān Bairām Khān the Khānkhānān asked him, as Fārighī was the poetical name of the well-known Shaikh ‘Abdul Wājid of Khāwaf, to whom he was closely bound in the bonds of friendship and religious dependence, to change his poetical name to Tāriqī. He used this name for some time, but when he returned to ‘Irāq he reverted to the use of his former nom de plume. He then came to Hindūstān a second time, and died here. His son, Mīr Taqī, was another Shāh Fatḥu-’llāh in his knowledge of astronomy and astrology, and I presented to him a part of twenty chapters “When I saw her dark hair forming a garment round her body I believed it to be the garment of the holy pilgrimage and wound it round myself.”