[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) › 376 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 376: CLXVII. Hajri. Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 376 - **Language:** English ### [376](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.376) He is descended from his holiness Shaikh Jam, (may God hallow his tomb). He was very pious, chaste, and pure, and had an angelic disposition. He has compiled a divan consisting of five thousand couplets. The following verses are some of the products of his genius: — A quatrain. “ O Rose to whose skirt no hand can reach We love Thy name and are intoxicated by Thy perfume! This is the marvel, that Thou art present and yet absent from our midst Thou art invisible, yet all that is visible is from Thee!” An ode. “ It is the singer of the morning, joy-diffusing, that awakens desire in our hearts The nightingale of early morn is welcomed as an intimate to the assembly of the Rose. Become by the height of love’s good fortune the huma of the lote-tree of Paradise For the garden and the scenery of this village (the world) oppresses the spirits. Wash thy mouth with the water of repentance from the dregs of thy sins, For thy life has been spent in transgression and the time for restraint has come, Put on the breastplate of worship, for, ambushed by thy life’s way, The robber of thy time stands to meet thee, With his blood-shedding sword in his hand. He is the son of Hamdam Beg who was one of the famous amirs of his late majesty. Hamdami is well known for his bravery and his goodness of disposition. He used to occupy himself with poetry. The following couplet is his:— “See my heart, which has on every part of it a fresh seal caused by love’s madness; It is an ocean of grief and everywhere in it there is a whirlpool of blood.” In imitation of that ghazal of Asafi’s, which begins:— “My slayer closes her eyes at my dying gasp, Until my heart longs with regret to catch her gaze.” He wrote, by the emperor's order, the following:— “The arrow of that slayer came and passed through my heart, And the scar remains on my heart till the day of resurrection.” Shaikh Faizi, at the time when this ghazal was under discussion at Agra, wrote the following:— “Place thy foot on it (my heart), O slayer, as I gasp in death, That thus I may have an opportunity of kissing thy foot.” At this time (Faizi) produced many ghazals of this sort from his divan and dressed them up to suit the emperor’s taste. “ The rose, perchance, came to the rose-garden from beneath my beloved's arm For it has the sweet perfume of her shift.” “ Whose spell-casting eyes have once more fluttered my heart? Whose ringlets, diffusing ambergris, have once more become the chain for my madness of love?” “ I fear that my hard-hearted love will wreck the affairs of my soul. Oh, may nobody have a love so hard-hearted as mine!” “ Who am I, fallen in the dust at her door? A helpless one, A hopeless one, a friendless one, a destitute one.” “ Ah, vagrant heart, thou hast chosen thy place in the dust at her door! Thou hast found a good place for thyself.” “ If thou desirest faithful friends, I swear by thy fidelity that none is more faithful than I.” “ Desirous of being with thee for an age I have sought to be with thee, When I found that I could not be with thee I accustomed myself to thy absence.” - [Previous: 375](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.375) - [Next: 377](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.377) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.376](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.376) · Pramāṇa