Muntakhab al-tawarikh 332: CXXII. Mir Murtaza Sharifi of Shiraz.

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He was the grandson of Mir Sayyid Sharif-i-Jurjani, (may his tomb be hallowed). In the exact sciences, in various bran- In A.H. 995 (A.D. 1587) in Lahor, a wall, blown down by some ill wind, fell on his head, and the corn of his life was whirled away by the breeze. As he was unrivalled as a singer and chanter this chronogram was composed on the event:—
“Alas, that by the efforts of the unjust sky A nightingale of sweet song is gone from the garden! He was so smitten on the loins by a whirling stone That he was wounded and went from our midst. I asked of wisdom the date of his death, And received the answer, ‘The Pīrzāda has gone from the world!’”