He was well skilled in the exact sciences. He was a companion of the Khān-i-Zamān, and was captured in his rebellion.* The emperor spared his life, but death, less merciful, took it from him. The following opening couplets of qaṣīdahs are his:—
“Until like dust I settled on the skirts of the robe of my
beloved,
I had no rest from my wanderings nor ease at my heart.”“We are but a handful of ashes, but we carry fire in us,
It would be no wonder if we were consumed by the sparks
of our own sighs.”
The Khān-i-Zamān gave him a thousand rupees as a reward for composing this latter couplet.