Babar kept on repenting over his wow for not drinking wine. In his own words:
‘While others repent and make vow to abstain, I’ve vowed to abstain and repentant am I’. He is reported to start drinking wine again during last years of his life. During this period of abstinence of wine, he took help of writing.
He was one of the best Turk poets of the time and also wrote in Persian. He is reported to write many books including one on the jurisprudence. But his most interesting and surviving book his memoir (Tuzk e Babri). He used to carry on his register for writing memoir even on his expedition. During such an expedition, when he was writing, a storm destroyed his tent and the register was washed away.. He tried to save the contents, but was not successful completely. Tuzk e Babri does not mention many events due to this event of destruction of the material.