The Memoirs of Bābur 911.8.2

911.8.2

Mīr `Abdu'l-ghafūr of Lār was another. Disciple and pupil both of Maulānā `Abdu'r-raḥmān _Jāmī_, he had read aloud most of the Mullā's poems (_mas̤nawī_) in his presence, and wrote a plain exposition of the _Nafaḥāt_.[1131] He had good acquaintance with the exoteric sciences, and in the esoteric ones also was very successful. He was a curiously casual and unceremonious person; no person styled Mullā by any-one soever was debarred from submitting a (Qorān) chapter to him for exposition; moreover whatever the place in which he heard there was a darwīsh, he had no rest till he had reached that darwīsh's presence. He was ill when I was in Khurāsān (912 AH.); I went to enquire for him where he lay in the Mullā's College,[1132] after I had made the circuit of the Mullā's tomb. He died a few days later, of that same illness. Mīr `Atā'u'l-lāh of Mashhad was another.[1133] He knew the Arabian sciences well and also wrote a Persian treatise on rhyme. That treatise is well-done but it has the defect that he brings into it, as his examples, couplets of his own and, assuming them [Sidenote: Fol. 179.] to be correct, prefixes to each, "As must be observed in the following couplet by your slave" (_banda_). Several rivals of his find deserved comment in this treatise. He wrote another on the curiosities of verse, entitled _Badāi`u's-sanāi_; a very well-written treatise. He may have swerved from the Faith.