The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 596

The woman is screaming in the grave: I have not met with thee, 0 beloved!

(55). 0 Farid, the head has become grey,* the beard is grey, the mustachoes are grey.

0 careless, foolish mind, dost thou (still) enjoy pleasures?

(56). 0 Farid, how much fluttering is there in the house! 0 friend, put away sleep!

The days, that are obtained, are counted,^ they are fast, fast gone.

(57). 0 Farid, houses, halls, upper-storied houses — do not apply thy mind to this!

(When) the dust, that is not to be weighed, has fallen (upon thee), no one will be thy friend.

(58). 0 Farid, do not apply (thy) mind to mansion and property, apply it with aU efforts* to death!

Eemember that place, whither thou hast to go!

(59). 0 Farid, in which works there is no benefit, those works forget!

Lest thou become ashamed in the court of the Lord.

(60). 0 Farid, render service to the Lord, put a stop to the wandering' of thy heart!

To Darveshes the patience * of trees is necessary.

(61). 0 Farid, black are my clothes, black is my dress.

Full of sins I wander about, the world calls me a Darvesh.

(62). By hot water (a field) does not sprout, though one immerse (it) in water.

0 Farid, the woman, who is disliked by (her) Lord, goes on grieving.

(63). "When she is a girl, there is desire (for marriage), (when) she is married, there are troubles.

0 Farid, she regrets it, that she does not again become a girl.

(64). Geese ' have come and descended on a pond in saltpetre soil.

They dip their bills (into the water), but do not drink, they bum '" to fly away.

tf^ (= i_Jt.«), here in the sense of ^iiS, a kind of sliirf, without sleeves, worn by Faqirs.

' Tff^JHTT, as well as fi|64l*lfT1> is the first person sing. fern, of the preterite (cf. the Sindhi Tfl'^Tf^); s^ee niy Sindhi Gram. p. 289.

' J|lcS<^l 'from JllcNAI, to count), the partici]ilp pass, pres., Sindhi JU (Til ^; see my Sindhi Gram. p. 220.

' TTn^ is the.\blat. of JTSTTi (or TTJIS^ = ^T'^TO- "'th all efforts, as still used in.Marathi).

" 3dir7> wandering, straying about, Sansk. J^fsfl.

* •Hldif^ sf. patience, endurance; the word lias become quite obsolete.

' ^J^ = ^JJT (W^)> s being occasionally changed to_;/i. See my Sindhi Gram. Introd. p. xxx.

'" 3^ ■'/• burning, verbal noun of j^Jft^l to burn (Sansk. ^^, passive of ^^), Sindhi (without Anusvara) ^^TfJ.

(65). Geese flying along have fallen on Kodhra grain,' the people go and drive them away.