Muntakhab al-tawarikh 75: Verse. Come not out, for you will be the calamity of the age, We shall be slain and you will be disgraced.
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 75
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Verse. Come not out, for you will be the calamity of the age, We shall be slain and you will be disgraced.
75.1
The following qasidah also is a very happy production of his:—
Every man who sets his heart upon worldly desires In the judgment of men of wisdom is not wise;
' Thy form is straight like the letter Alif [may his shadow be lengthened], And thine eyebrows are extended like the madda over the Alif. Thou hast cast the die of acceptance on the words of others, But through the words of lovers thou has drawn the line of refusal ; Thou endurest troubles, do not attempt to draw her, O painter of Chin, Wert thou to draw a hundred, never would there come eyes and locks like her’s. Firaqi, be not over-desirous of the wealth of union with her, Thou hast suffered boundless tyranny and spite at the hands of thy beloved,
The king, who has now taken refuge in God’s pardon, in spite of that unseemly behaviour was excessively fond of the Khwajah. Accordingly, so desirous was he of his society that he joined him in the marriage-bond to one of the Begams, in the hope that he would adopt the manner of life of people of probity and rectitude, but the Khwajah was held so close a prisoner by his evil habits, that he could not abide companionship with the king.
Verse. When once evil habits have taken possession of the nature They will never leave it till the day of death.
He put forward various flimsy pretexts to that end, and not even contenting himself with this, one day while in the king’s assembly he was guilty of a breach of decorum which one blushes to mention. The king, out of the exceeding kindliness and goodness of his nature, overlooked his fault, and merely remarked, “ My dear Khwaja what sort of manners are these ! ” The Khwaja sought permission to proceed to Makka the revered, the blessed, and after duly setting in order the requisites for his journey and the requirements for a sea-voyage, he bade him farewell. When he embarked he enquired of his companions, "What are the advantages of going thither?" They replied, "Purification from past sins." He rejoined, "I will wait then till I have fulfilled the catalogue of sins, and then be purified, so that I may have no further desire to sin." Thus he remained destitute of that grace, and abandoning himself to his desires, gave the rein to his passions. Sultan Bahadur of Gujrat in consideration of pleasant companionship and good-fellowship, appointed him a daily allowance of one ashrafi for his expenditure. One day when he was passing through the bazar of Ahmadabad, seeing the Khwaja in the Tirpaulya mosque, he reined back and with great kindness and empressement asked "How is the faring?" He replied "On the fare which you have allotted me, one of my limbs even cannot obtain sufficient sustenance, why do you ask such a question?" Sultan Bahadur notwithstanding this rudeness doubled his allowance.
Just at that time too Shah Tahir Dakkani came to Gujrat with all pomp and circumstance on the occasion of his embassage from Nizam Shah Dakkani, and having heard such high praise of the Khwaja arrived at his house, which had neither a mat nor a pitcher of water. A very pleasant colloquy followed, each reciting his own and hearing the other's verses, and on the next The wicked sees all the vices of others, From the pitcher that distils which it contains:
God (He is glorified and exalted) preserves all of us from that which is wrong and improper, and as at this time the writer has not with him a selection from the anthologies of the eloquent and learned poets, accordingly he has found it necessary to restrict himself to the brief mention of these few poets by way of an example.
Should this inconstant and transitory life give a few days respite, and should the days, in opposition to their usual habit afford assistance, and should Fate give its help, he will make mention of the poets of former times, and the contemporary poets of Hindustan, especially of those whom he has seen or heard and appreciated in his own lifetime, together with extracts from their poems included in their biographies.
Mine is the endeavour, its perfection is from God! Should this not come to pass, this much will suffice as a memorial of the author:
If I remain in life, I will repair The garment which exile has rent; If I should die, accept this my excuse, Many are the hopes which crumble into dust!
Abu Bakr Dolaf ibn Jahdar (or Ja'far) ibn Yunus ash Shibli, a celebrated Muhammadan Saint, 59 and n 1
75.2
Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad 'Ali Samarqandi, Amir Ruhani,—one of the most learned men of the time of Sultan Shamsu-d-Din Iyal-Timish 93 and n 2
75.11
Abu Bakr Khan, a prince of the family of 'Alau-d-Din
Abu Bakr Khan, a relation of Muhammad Khan the ruler of Nagor, 423 n 11
75.349
Abu Bakr Khan, afterwards Abu Bakr Shah, son of Zafar Khan the grandson of Sultan Firoz 341, 342, 343, 344, 346, 349
75.1_2
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar Razi, known as Rhazes the famous physician, 80 n 1
75.234
Abu Bakr Shah See under Abu Bakr Khan, son of Zafar Khan
Abu Bakr Haidari chief of the sect of Qalandars, 234
75.1_3
Abu Firas Hammam son of Ghalib the poet known as al Farazdaq (q. v.), 287 n 1
75.1_4
Abu Hanifah, Imam—founder of the Hanifite School of Jurisprudence, 57 n 1
75.3
Abu Hafsah, a poet of the time of Sultan Najmu-d-Din Mahmud Shah of Dihli, 184 n 3
75.1_5
Abu Ishaq son of Alptigin governor of Ghazni 13 n 1, 14 and n 1
75.2_2
Abu Ja'far al Mansur, the 'Abbaside Khalifah 74 n 2
75.23
Abu-l 'Abbas ibn Mamun Khwarazm Shah—a contemporary of Sultan Mahmud of Ghaznin 23
75.2_3
Abu-l 'Abbas, al Qadir billah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al Muqtadir, the 'Abbaside Khalifah, 17 and n 2
75.2_4
Abu-l Ajsad, Father of bodies, a name for Sulphur, 340 n 2
75.4
Abu-l 'Ala Ganjawi master of the poet Khaqani, 583 n 4
75.1_6
Abu-l 'Ala' al Ma'arri, the Arab poet, 183 n 1
75.2_5
Abu-l Arwah, Father of spirits, a name for Quicksilver, 340 n 2
75.573
Abu-l Baqi Amir, one of the Amirs of Humayun 455, 560, 573
75.1_7
Abu-l-Barakah, 633 nn 3 and 5 Same as the next (q v )
Abu-l Barakat of Mawaran-n-Nahr, Khwaja, 632 and nn 3 and 6 See the above
Abu-l Faraj Runi, the Ustad, a celebrated poet of the time of Sultan Ibrahim Ghaznawi, Saiyyidu-s-Salatin 53 n 54 and n 1
75.60
Abu-l Fath 'Abdur-Razzaq grandson of Hasan Maimandi, Khwaja Imam—Wazir of Sultan Maudud Ghaznawi, 47, 60
75.1_8
Abu-l Fath, Miyan Shaikh son of Shaikh Allahdiyah of Khairabad, 646 and n 1
75.6
Abu-l Fath al Mu'tadid billahi, sixth of the 'Abbasi Khalifahs in Egypt, 527 n 6
75.3_2
Abu-l Fath Sultan Afshar, one of the Amirs of the Qizilbash 676 n 3
75.613
Abu-l Fath of Thanesar, Miyan—a learned doctor of the time of Islam Shah 613
75.62
Abu-l Fazl 'Allami,—the celebrated minister of Akbar and author of the A'in-i Akbari, 26 n 2 27 n 1, 62