(1)               Nasīr al-Dīn Hashmi, Dakkan meṉ Urdū, (New Delhi: Super printer South Anarkali 1985), p. 305-306.

(2)               Muḥammad Ḥafīz, Kuliyāt-i Baḥri, (Lakhnau: Munshi Naval Kishaur, 1949), p. 55.

(3)               ibid, p. 57.

(4)               Nafīs Iqbal, Urdū Sha’airi meṉ Taṣavvuf, (Lahore: Sang-i Meel Publications), p.113.

(5)               Jamīl Jalibi, Tārīkh-i Adab-i Urdū, (Lahore:2005), v.1, p.521.

(6)               ibid, p.522.

(7)               Urdū Encyclopedia of Islam, (Lahore: University of the Punjab), pp. 20-25.

(8)               Qazi Maḥmood Baḥri, ‘Arūs-i ‘Irfān, (Kitāb Khana Āsafia, 1116), p. 09.

(9)               Sayyid Younus Shah, Tazkira Nāt Go’yān-i Urdū, (Abbotabad: Al-Gilan Publishers), v.1, p. 197.

(10)            ibid, p. 198.