Muntakhab al-tawarikh 55.4

55.4

I wear a garment woven of the dust of thy street, And that too rent to the skirt with my tears. Verse. Love’s speech is swift, whole centuries of words, Friend speaks to friend swift as the eye can close. The following ode also, which he translated and set to music in his native Hindi, is marvellously inspiring, and is well known: My heart’s desire is fixed on thy abode Oh thou that art long absent from my sight ; By day and night the thought of thee alone My constant partner is, ask then thy thought Should’st thou desire, to bring thee news of me. He also wrote a Tazkirah (Book of Memoirs) to recount the assemblies of some of the Shaikhs of Hindustan, called the Siyaru-l-’Arifin (Biographies of the Saints) which is not entirely free from defects and discrepancies. It commences from the venerable Khwajah Mu‘inu-l-Haqq wau-d-Din Ajmiri, and finishes with his own spiritual guide Shaikh Samau-d-Din Kanbawi of Dihli, in addition to which it contains other matter both prose and poetry. His diwan is made up of eight or nine thousand couplets.