He was the grandson of Mir Sayyid Sharīf-i-Jarjānī,* (may his tomb be hallowed). In the exact sciences, in various branches of philosophy, in logic, and in metaphysics he excelled all the learned men of the age. He went from Shīrāz to the glorious city of Makkah, and there studied the Traditions* under Shaikh Ibn Ḥajar and received a teaching diploma. Thence he went to the Dakan, and from the Dakan he came to Āgra, where he attained a higher position than most learned and erudite men of former or recent times. He employed himself in giving instruction in arts and sciences until, in the year H. 974 (A.D. 1566-67), as has already been said,* he departed to Paradise. His body, which was at first interred near that of Mīr Khusrav* (God's mercy be on him), was taken to Mashhad, and Mīr Muḥsin Riẓavī* found the following chronogram for his death:—
“When Mīr Murtaẓ left this world
It was as though knowledge departed from the race of Adam.
To give the date of his departure Muḥsin
Said, ‘A paragon has departed from the world.’”*
The following couplet is one of the productions of the Mīr's noble genius:—
“Ease of heart is not to be obtained from material possessions.
The seed of ease of the heart is in the dispersal of material
possessions.”
It is probable that the source of this couplet is that passage in the Lawā'iḥ* in which it is said that some have believed that contentment consisted in the accumulation of material possessions and consequently remain in distraction to all eternity, while others, knowing for certain that the accumulation of material possessions is one of the causes of distraction, have washed their hands of all things.