Machine summary:
D. The author of "Tadhkiratush-Shu'ara" writes that Qudsi was the Treasurer of the mausoleum of Imam Rida; and the author of "Majma'un-Nafais" says, "From his works it appears as if he was the Treasurer.
The author of "Amal-i-Saleh" writing the incidents of the fifth year of Shahjahan's reign says, "During these very days the miraculous• tongued and unusually skilled Qudsi, who is extremely God-fearing and pure in attributes and possesses piety and virtue, besides being unrivalled in the art of poetry and eloquence ...
" The mathnawi "Zafar Nameh'' begins with the following couplet: (View the image of this page) My tongue was loosened in praise of the Almighty, Whose existence is the source of all living beings.
In the catalogue of the India Office Library another separate mathnawi has been mentioned, which describes the illness of the poet and begins with the following : · (View the image of this page) But this is a part of the ma thna wi on Kashmir, as has been confirmed in the catalogue of Bankipore.
· The ghazals of Qudsi are mostly conventional, lacking freshness and feeling; still in some places he has sung very well, and some of his ghazals are homogeneous and uniform, as may be found in the following: (View the image of this page) In that company where friend drank eternal wine, When my turn came the cup was broken.
The author of "Mir'atul-Khayal'' says, "The following ghazal of Mu}:ta~ma_d· Jan, which he composed in imitation of Faghfur!' and excelled him ts well known : (View the image of this page) I have got a- heart, but what sort of heart?