 He first chose the pen-name Ṣāfī, but changed it to Awhadi after becoming a devotee of the school of the famous mystic Shaikh Auhaduddin Kermani.Awhadi has a divan of 8000 verses which consists of the Persian poetic forms "qasidas", ghazals, tarji'bands and quatrains.The "qasidas" are in praise of Abu Said and his Vizir, Ghiyath al-Din, the son of Rashid al-Din Fazlah.