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modern times similarly situated. One of Maj id's pupils hearing of 

 her arrival, thus maliciously congratulated his preceptor—" Good 

 news. A lady has honoured (lit. descended on) your house to-day." 

 On which Majid drily remarked, " It would have been better young 

 man, had you brought me tidings that the house had descended on 

 her." 



Selgur Shah presented him on some occasion with a very costly 

 robe, but of not very recent manufacture, having most of the words 

 comprised in the Kalimeh, the Mahomedan confession of faith, embroi- 

 dered thereon in letters of gold. The part deficient was the conclu- 

 sion of the creed, viz. Mahomed Rassul Allah, *&£y£jft&*&U 

 Mahomed is the ambassador of God. Some of his friends on observ- 

 ing this, expressed their surprise at the omission of this very important 

 article of their faith, when Majid pleasantly remarked, in allusion to 

 the robe's antiquity, that he supposed it must have been fabricated 

 before the time of the prophet. 



Malek Kumi, 



This poet travelled from Persia to the court of Xizam Shah in the 

 Deccan; after whose death he held some lucrative appointment about 

 the person of Ibrahim Adfl Shah. His compositions are said to com- 

 prise nearly a lac of couplets of no great merit. The poet Zetkuri es- 

 poused one of Kumis daughters. 



Malek Razi Uddin. 



Was governor of Bah- in the reign of Ahaka Khan ; but for some 

 misconduct was disgraced and the post conferred on the eunuch Jelal 

 Uddin, on whom he penned a severe satire. He did not omit to make 

 sarcastic allusion to his rival's bodily defects. 



Malek Shah. 



Son of Takhash, a governor of Khurassan, was a poet of considera= 

 ble talent. Bukhldu er Khan does not mention the era in which he 

 flourished. 



