Muntakhab al-tawarikh 323: CXV. Kulahi.

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He is acquainted with several branches of learning, and he received the title of Afzal Khan. He came to Hindustan from the Dakan and was enrolled for some time among the doctors of the sacred law. On the occasion on which Mirza Muqim and Mir Habash were put to death by the sentence of Mulla ‘Abdu-’llah of Lahor on a charge of heresy and of cursing the companions of Muhammad he fled in terror from this country to the Dakan and departed thence for the next world. The following verses are his: —
“I tell love’s secret to none but my own heart, For my heart hears the word which I speak, and tells it not again.”
“I placed my head on her feet, but she was vexed with me. When I seized her skirt she snatched it away and passed from me.”
“How long will the jealous watcher oppose my passing through that door? He girds up his loins in enmity against me. O Lord, let him not gird up his loins!”
“Whenever the enemy comes to war against thee with helmet on head, When thou in battle smitest his helmet with thy sword,