He was the younger brother of Ḥakīm Abū-l-Fatḥ, and his disposition was better than his brother's. Although it was not naturally good, yet it cannot be said to have been naturally evil. Ḥakīm Ḥasan, Shaikh Faiẓī, Kamālā the Ṣadr, and Ḥakīm Humām* all died one after the other within the space of a month, and all the wealth which they had amassed disappeared in a moment, vanishing as completely as though it had been sunk in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, and to them nothing remained but the wind of vain regrets. But this indeed is and has been the common fate of all courtiers, both dead and living, namely, that, in spite of the treasures of Qārūn* and Shaddād*
which they are enabled to amass, they depart hence often without so much as a shroud, and bearing on their broken necks the affliction of their malignity, the load of eternal disappointment and everlasting ignominy—And this, too, is the saying of ‘Isā (on whom be peace!), which he spoke to the world, likening it in parable to an old woman, “Woe to thy living husbands, they believe not on the fate of thy husbands who are no more!”
“Surrender thy soul to the Beloved, else shall death
snatch it from thee!”
“Judge thou for thyself, my soul, which of the two is
the better.”
The ḥakīm died in Lāhōr, and his body was carried thence to the camping ground of Ḥasan Abdāl, and interred beside that of his brother.