Muntakhab al-tawarikh 333: CXX. La‘li.

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He is Mirza La‘l Beg, the son of Shah Quli Sultan of Badakhshan. He is a young man of exceeding nobility of disposition, and is distinguished by the delicacy of his beauty, and as well known for the purity of his nature as for his beauty of form. He is remarkable for his good manners, his humility, his amiable disposition, his courtesy, and his modesty, and he is one of the intimate associates of the emperor. At the present time a farman has been issued from court to him in the Dakan ordering him to leave the service of Sultan Murad and to join the court at Lahor. He is very well read in history, and in travels. The author is bound to him by bonds of mutual acquaintance and great regard.
He sometimes occupies himself with poetry, and the following couplet from his poems remains in the author’s memory:—
“Since I have become as the dust of the road in thy path I fear Lest thou should not pass by me, but should take another way.” the Lawa'ih in which it is said that some have believed that contentment consisted in the accumulation of material possessions and consequently remain in distraction to all eternity, while others, knowing for certain that the accumulation of material possessions is one of the causes of distraction, have washed their hands of all things.