He has recently come from ‘Irāq and has been appointed an Aḥadī,* and before he attained this dignity he wrote the following quatrain on Sharīf-i-Sarmadī* the roster-keeper, inspector of the Aḥadīs, who has an enormous moustache:—

“This simpleton will at length become an Aḥadī,
And will be asking for the felt cap*
In the depth of his perplexity he will, a hundred times a
day,
Become a sacrifice for Sarmadī's moustache.”