The collected works of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī, who came to India, 994 A.H. (1586 C.E.), first proceeded to the Deccan, where he soon entered into the service of Ḥakīm Masīḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Jīlānī, but subsequently, on the death of his patron, 997 A.H. (1589 C.E.), he went to seek his fortune at Agra. Here he soon rose in the favour of the Khān-i Khānān, Mīrzā 'Abd al-Raḥīm (the son of Bayram Khān, who had been Akbar's regent), who had translated from Turkic into Persian the Memoirs of Babur (see OR MS. 76), and died at the age of 72, 1036 A.H. (1627 C.E.). 'Urfī was brought into the notice of Akbar through the Khān-i Khānān at Fatḥpūr-Sīkrī. For some time he was an object of envy with a few of the Court poets. He died at an early age at Lahore, 999 A.H. (1591 C.E.). The first part of this work is dated 1065 A.H. (1655 C.E.), but the owner's inscription on the second part is dated 1063 A.H. (1652 C.E.).