Muntakhab al-tawarikh 370: CLXII. YasfI.

370

His name is Mir ‘Abdu-’llah and he is an excellent penman. He is the pupil of Shah Ghiyas and Maulana Raqimi, and writes seven scripts. He is enrolled among the ahadis. Through his mother he is related to Mirza Nizamu-d-din Ahmad. He sometimes turns his attention to poetry. The following verses are his:—
“Now that I have experienced the sweetness of love’s sorrow I enjoy a thousand bursts of weeping for every laugh of mine.”
A quatrain.
“Where is love? For my inner self is dark as the darkest night: The secrets of God are hidden from my understanding. It may be that love will lead me to them, but, if not, Then is the end of my journey far indeed from my lame efforts.”
Another quatrain.
“If a poet form the intention of eulogizing thy greatness. His thoughts are imprisoned in his mind by the weightiness of the subject. In thy reign strife has so disappeared from our midst That the flame sympathizes with the cotton in its constancy.”