According to Muhammad Husain Azad in Aab-e-Hayat: Mirzā Sahib died on the 29th of
Muharram,
AH 1292 [1875–76], at the age of 72 years. In his lifetime he must have written at least three thousand elegies. Not counting his salāms and nauhas and quatrains. He wrote a dotless elegy (be-nuqta) of which the opening verse is:
Hum tale-e-Huma murad hum rasa hua Meaning:
My far-reaching imagination has the same fortune-star as the Huma In it, he used (the dotless) Utārid or Atarid
(Mercury) instead of Dabeer for a pen-name. And there's no doubt that with him elegy composition in India reached its conclusion. Now no such time will come, nor will such accomplished persons be born (Frances W. Pritchett translation). List of
Marsiya by Dabeer: • Kis sher ki Amad hai ki Run kaanp raha hai • Dast-e-Khuda Ka Quwat-e-Bazoo Husain hain • Bilqees paasbaan hai ye kiski janaab hai • Paida Shua-E-Mehar Ki Miqraaz Jab Huee Although Dabeer's poetic expression found expression in the genre of marsiya but he made use of other forms of Urdu poetry, viz., salaam and rubai, he seldom wrote ghazals too. A couplet from one of his salaams is a clear example of his genius comparable to Ghalib: :
Hurr fida pyaasa jo Shah par ho gaya :
Ai salami, qatra tha samandar ho gaya! Meaning: :
When the thirsty Hurr (willingly) sacrificed his life for the Shah (Hussain); :
(Know) O salami, (O pilgrim) In truth the drop became the entire ocean! :
Naqaash naqsh, Kaatib o Khat, Baani o Bina, :
Bood o Nabood, Zaat o Sifat, Hasti o Fana, :
Aadam Malak, Zameen Falak, Gard e Kimiya, :
Duniya o Deen, Hadoos o Qidam, Banda e khuda, :
Sab, Shahid e Kamal e Shahe Mashraqain hain, :
Jab Tak Khuda Ka Mulk hai, Malik Hussain hain. ==Dabeer and Anis rivalry==