1) Zeb un-Nisa, the eldest daughter of Aurangzeb and an important poet whose pen name was Makhfi ("concealed"), composed the following quatrain while looking at the white abshar in Shalamar Garden:

O waterfall! For whose sake art thou weeping?
In whose sorrowful recollection hast thou wrinkled thy brows?
What pain was it that impelled thee like myself the whole night
To strike thy head against the stone and to shed tears?

2) Salih Kambo, a court historian of Shah Jahan, has described the beauties of the Bagh-I Farah Baksh and Faiz Bakhsh in his Bahar-I Sukhan in Zul Hijja (February 1646), four years after Shalamar was completed. His lengthy description throws ample light on the nature of the physical environment of Shalamar during this glorious early period. The following excerpt highlights the poetic nature of the chadar and chini khanas:

The chadar under the surface of crystal clear water, and the light niches or springs of bounty, are glittering like happy faces. The lamps are burning face to face, eliminating darkness and bringing clarity like the hearts of pious people. These lamps are as involved in themselves as innocent people who sometimes become lost in the deeper sea of realities. The chute of water together with the lamps appear to be spreading beads and arches along with cascades, which are shining like scholarly people.