It was with his long, unique poem, Qiran-us-Sa'dain, written with ceaseless labour of six months, at the age of thirty six, that Khusro became the poet-laureate of King Kaiqobad at Delhi. The famous poet of Persia, Sa'di sent him compliments. With his second collection of verses, Wast-ul-Hayat, Amir Khusro's name spread from house to house, wide and far and he came to be known in Persia as well. To him the sun, for instance, would be the galloping deer, streams of fire, darts in the sky, washing agent for water and earth, and so on.

He emerged as one of the most original poets of India, innovating new metaphors and similes. His genius thrived and sustained itself with the support of his industrious temperament and, indeed the fortune of getting generous patrons in nobles, princes and kings. When his father died when Khusro was only eight he came under the care of his maternal grandfather.Amir Khusro was writing poetry from a tender age.

From his mother who was of Hindustani origin and from his maternal grandfather he acquired both, an intimacy with the local languages as well as a rooting in the immediate cultural ambience. Khusro's father served the Sultan of Delhi, Shamsuddin Il-tutmish, in a high position, and Amir Khusro was educated in theology, Persian and the Quran. in Patiyala, India, His paternal ancestors belonged to the nomadic tribe of Hazaras from Transoxiana, who crossed the river Indus and migrated to India in the thirteenth century.

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