The Shining Lamp — Page 215
CORRESPONDENCE WITH HADRAT KHAWAJAH GHULAM FARĪD هان مشو نازان تو با فخر دگر یار ما دارد به باطنها نظر My Friend looks at your inner condition. So, do not be proud of any other beauty of yours. بهر وصلش شورها باید فکند هست آن عالی جنابی بس بلند That Court is extremely lofty and magnificent; To be united with Him demands much toil and striving. هر که افتادست او آخر بخاست زندگی در مردن عجز و بکاست Life is gained by dying, humility, and weeping; Only he who falls down will be raised [to life]. کی فغانش تا در جانان رسد تا نه کار درد کس تا جان رسد Until the time that the pain becomes life-threatening, The lamenting and moaning do not reach the Beloved's Threshold. چیست وصل از نفس خود گشتن جدا هر که ترک خود کند یابد خدا One who forsakes his ego, finds God. What is union with God—it is to part with one's self. مردن و از خود شدن یکسان بود لیک ترک نفس کی آسان بود But it is not easy to kill one's self, To die and to leave one's ego is the same thing. کو رباید ذره ی امکان ما تا نه آن بادی وزد بر جان ما So long as that breeze does not blow over us, Which takes away every particle of our being— 215