Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.2.2

18.2.2

The tenth is the illustrious Seyd-mir-mahmed-sedjad, or Mir-mahmed, the Prosterner, who by his virtues brought in mind all the merits of his illustrious ancestors. Having once chosen to live as a monk or religious, he became a personage of high repute, although he did not value the world more than he did a straw. He was an intimate friend of my forgiven father, under whose auspices he had commenced a poem on what concerns the other world. He was a man of knowledge, understood many sciences, and had so many valuable qualifications, besides, that both tongue and pen would fail in enumerating them at length. We have seen a book of his composition. It gives an insight into the heights to which his mind had soared; nor can it fail to give a high opinion of his merit to any one that will peruse it. After my father's departure for Shah-djehan-abad, there intervened a sincere friendship between this venerable man and the glorious grandfather of me, the most inconsiderable of mankind. They seemed inseparable. This worthy man intended to enter in the army, and to acquire the merit of fighting the infidels; but he died before he could execute his design, nor do I remember of the year of his death; else, I would mention it. May God have joined him to his pious ancestors, and may He have assigned him a place in his merciful mansions!