He is for the most part an imitator* of Kh'āja Āṣafī. He is a skilful painter and has attained by means of studying the out­ward form to hidden truths, and has written on outward form and hidden essence a poetical treatise which begins as follows:—

“O Lord, I am unable to grasp hidden truth!
Forgive me, for I am too much a worshipper of the out-
ward form
Of thy grace, O most Pure God!
Thou hast so fashioned the outward form of our earthly
tabernacles
That every (fair) form which I see
Points out to me the way to the hidden truths of Thine ¹⁹⁶
Essence.”

Other Verses.

“When is the wine of love given to him who suffers no
pain?
Love for the beautiful is a state of exhilaration. To whose
lot does it fall?”

“In my dream I saw her sitting with the jealous watcher,
and my heart was perturbed.
Had I at that moment awoken from my dream I should
have died, but died too late.”

“When I cast a glance at her moonlike face, even while I
am looking,
She glowers at me angrily, to bid me not to gaze at her.”

“I steal a glance at that graceful one,
And when she looks towards me, I look downwards to the
ground in shame.”

“The child of my tears took his way in the road of my
beloved,
Like a sweet orphan he put his foot forward in this path;
But the delicate child was unable to endure love's tyranny,
And called my beloved cruel and faithless.”

“I am perturbed when she is away from me,
Lest my moon-faced darling should fall in love with
another.”

Pairavī wrote a complete dīvān of ghazals. He died in Hindū-stān.