Muntakhab al-tawarikh 67: Qita'h.

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Tu-i Shah-i-Shahan-i-dauran ki shud Hamisha tura kar fath o zafar. Girifti Badakhshan o tarikh shud. Muhammad Humayun Shah-i-bahr o bar!
Ruba'i.
Until the weak body of the beggar became the dust of his threshold, His heart on account of his sorrow and vexation, fell desolate. The life of this helpless one left him because of desire for the beloved, His love exceeded all bounds, if haply at that time that king might summon him.
Quatrain.
Tell the good tidings of the victory of the king of my faith.
And if my life should obtain a few days grace from that exacting creditor, Death, this qasidah, together with all the qasidahs and such useful information as I have written down in a separate note-book in the course of my travels, shall, should opportunity offer, be included among the contents of the second volume of the Najatu-r-Rashid, which I am anxiously longing to complete, should God, who facilitates our undertakings, so will it.
Another poet is Wafa'i, by which takhallus Shaikh Zainu-d-Din Khafi is commonly known, who was Sadru-s-mustaqill (Judge-plenipotentiary) during the reign of Babar Padishah. There is a mosque in Agra to his memory, and a school situated on the other side of the river Jamna. He was the possessor of excellencies both bodily and mental, and in the construction of enigmas and chronograms, and in extempore versification, and in all the minutiae of poetry and prose, and in rhetoric, he was unapproachable in his own age.
They say that in the very first assembly in which he made homage to Babar Padshah, he asked, what is your age? Without premeditation he answered, Qabl azin ba panj sal chil sala budam, wa halan chihal sala am, wa ba'd az an sal-i-digar chihal tamam mi shavad?
It should moreover be known that (Babar Padshah) also asked (a riddle) of the author of this Muntakhab saying: azin ba yak sal panjah sala budam, wa halan panjah sala am, wa ba'd azin ba dah sal panjah sala mi shavam.
It is well known that one day Shaikh Zain went to visit the brilliant resting-place of Sultana-l-Masha'ikh Nizamu-d-Din Auliya may God sanctify him, and having heard that story of the Shaikh about Hidayah mushtarakah wa fathu Jafaruh repeated this qit'ah on the spot :