He is a Sayyid of Hirāt and has good taste in poetry and in the composition of enigmas. He was the chief paymaster of Ataga Khān* and has written an ode and composed an enigma dedicated to Mīrza ‘Azīz Kūka,* containing a list of his titles and prayers for his long life and prosperity. The following few couplets are selected from his poems:—

“Now that the comb has disturbed those musky locks*
Ah, that the wind would bear this message to thine ear!”

“I would not that the dust, even of musk, should settle on ²¹⁶
that cheek,
God forbid that dust should have a place near thy heart.”

“The place of herbage in the garden is beneath the foot of
the rose,
In the garden of thy beauty* herbage has settled on the
rose.”