Precious Pearls — Page 60
62 It is a remedy for the poison of disbelief Each page of it is a cup of well-being. Pray read it with careful thought, dear ones It is an advice, for the sake of God. We have penned it with humbleness There is no duress or compulsion (5) Don’t be fearful of the people fear God At the end, the returning is unto Him. How the people have become so stonehearted The plague 81 is upon them, yet there is heedlessness. A multitude has passed away to date Even then there is no repentance such is the state! 25. INVITATION TO TRUTH FOR THE ARYAS 82 Ariyon ko Da’wate Haq Sanatan Dharm, title page, page 2, 1903 O Arya sect! Do not get enmeshed in calamity Why are you occupied with such evil thoughts? O Arya people! What has happened to your heart? Are you awake, or are you talking in your dream? Is the God that exists not the God of your life? There is no tinge of faith in such answer of yours. If the souls of the lovers are not by His Hand, Then why are they so restless for a stranger? If He is distant, such that He has not even touched us, Then who has written it in the book of heart? (5) The way the lovers’ hearts burn for Him, We have not seen such burning in cooked meat. He gives a cup of union to him who has died No difference is here between the young and old. He is found by only him who abases himself in dust What value would the superficial things have! He only becomes his who gives himself unto Him He is in His Lap who falls down in His presence. Go see the flowers their nectar is through Him ‘Tis His light that shines in the sun and the moon 83. (10) His light is there even in the beauty of the beauteous What is beauty? It is He Who shines behind a veil! Each hair in the curl but points unto Him In His separation it remains curled up in restiveness! Look, every drunken eye shows but Him It is in His love that every heart is ablaze. Those ignorant ones who do not believe in His actions,