Khalis Mashadi
Biography
Khalis Mashhadi, Sayyid Husayn Mashhadi (late 17th and early 18th centuries), son of Mirza Baqir. A poet with the nom de plume Khalis and well-known as Imtiyaz Khan or ‘Imtiaz ‘Ali Khan. He departed Khurasan on a pilgrimage to Mecca and traveled to India under ‘Alamgir Shah. He was well-received there and married the daughter of Faza’il Khan Mir Saman, the Mir Munshi (Chief Chancellery Scribe) of the Indian court and was appointed to high offices in time, but after a while he left for Persia. Khudayar Khan, the chief frontier guard of Sind, aspiring to seize his jewelry, killed him in 1807. The following couplets are by him:
I turned into dust on the way; I turned into antimonite and collyrium;
I turned into different hues, until I became familiar to her eyes.
Do not attend any assembly until you are invited,
Since wild flowers are not precious on the grass.
Farhang-i Sha’iran-i Zaban-i Parsi az Aghaz ta Imruz (1/ 183).
