The Memoirs of Bābur 906.2.8

906.2.8

When Samarkand was taken the second time, `Alī-sher Beg [Sidenote: Fol. 87.] was alive. We exchanged letters once; on the back of mine to him I wrote one of my Turkī couplets. Before his reply reached me, separations (_tafarqa_) and disturbances (_ghūghā_) had happened.[550] Mullā Binā'ī had been taken into Shaibāq Khān's service when the latter took possession of Samarkand; he stayed with him until a few days after I took the place, when he came into the town to me. Qāsim Beg had his suspicions about him and consequently dismissed him towards Shahr-i-sabz but, as he was a man of parts, and as no fault of his came to light, I had him fetched back. He constantly presented me with odes (_qaṣīda u ghazal_). He brought me a song in the Nawā mode composed to my name and at the same time the following quatrain;—[551]