[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 365 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 365: CXLVIII. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 365 - **Language:** English ### [365](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.365) He was that Jamal-ud-din, son of Miyau Mangli of Badāon, who has already been mentioned. He was a young man of perfect orthodoxy and well-known for the beauty of his form and his disposition. It may be said that love for him was the cause of the author’s settling in Badāon. Had he not been transitory as the rose he would have left behind him many examples of his poetry, but death gave him not the opportunity of acquiring accomplishments. The following verses are his:— ‘Hear this well-weighed saying from one who was nurtured on love: ‘He who dies of love is better than he who lives without love.’ on the page at which it opened this opening couplet was written: “Regard the sky as a cup which is upside down, empty of the wine of delight To look for wine from a cup which is upside down is the mark of a fool.” Niyazi olim Fusunium poetam in somnio vidit et putavit se in barba ejus minxisse. Poeta quidam hos versiculos recitavit, “R’iyazi Fusunium in somnio vidit. Et barbam ejus aqua ex amphora aspersit. Si autem minxit Fusunio opprobrio ne tribuatis, Canis, si minxit in rubo, minxit.” The following verses are by Riyazi:— “O silver-bodied one, thy locks curl over thy flaming cheek. For when a hair falls on the fire it twists and curls.” “Since I cannot go round the head of that tyrannical beauty, I bring her image to my sight and ever go round about it.” “It is not from the breeze that her shift is in motion, The grace of her body has given life to the shift.” He died in Thatha. - [Previous: 364](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.364) - [Next: 366.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.366.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.365](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.365) · Pramāṇa