Muntakhab al-tawarikh 339: CXXVII. RU‘IZĪ OF HIRĀT.

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He was a Tabātabā’ī Sayyid, and as a boy was educated with Kāmrān Mīrzā. He was for nearly fifty years in India, and it was in Hindūstān that he departed this life in the year A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574-75). The following two couplets are his:—
“How long, O sky! wilt thou keep me whirling around like a mote in a sunbeam? How long wilt thou keep me in exile and destitute?”
“I said, ‘with a sigh I will drive out grief from my heart.’ My grief is not lessened by sighs. Ah! What shall I do?”