Mulla Hakim Habib-al Lah dating history

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Mulla Hakim Habib-al Lah (مُلا حکیٖم حبیب اللہ) (1851–1904 CE ) was a Kashmiri poet who wrote in Kashmiri, Persian, and occasionally Urdu. A poet and teacher, he was deeply inclined towards mysticism and spent the last years of his life as a recluse, traditionally associated with qalandars. In the genre of Kashmiri muqam-bandh marsiya, he is considered one of the last major masters. Amongst his marsiya, Karbala, Shahadat, Hamesha Bahar, Kar and Yusuf are well known and recited across Kashmir. Habib-al Lah composed his poetry under the pen-name of Habib. In Kashmiri, he composed a shahr-i ashoub, Sehlab Nama (سیلاب نامئہ) which describes the devastation that took place in Kashmir during the great flood of 1903-4, and became quite popular. His other Kashmiri masnavi which satires rural life, Greist Nama, mirrors a similar work written earlier by Pir Maqbool Shah Kralwari. During his student days in Lahore, Habib also participated in poetical gatherings (mushairas) held in the city. His Persian poetry does not differ markedly from that of other contemporary poets of the Indian subcontinent who adhered to the Indian Style (sabk-e hindī). It reflects the nostalgic persistence of a literary tradition in a language that had largely ceased to be creatively vibrant.