The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 593

(17). 0 Faml, the dust should not be censured, no one is equal to the dust.

It is under the feet of the living and upon the dead ones.

(18). 0 Farid, when there is greediness, what is then love? if there is greediness, love is false.

For how long will time be passed in a hut broken by the rain?

(19). 0 Farid, why dost thou wander about in the jungle, the jungle, why dost tliou smash the thorns in the forest?

The Lord is dwelling in the heart,' what art thou seeking in the jungle?

(20). 0 Farid, with these slender legs I have wandered over low grounds and hills.

Now, 0 Farid, a small march' has become to me ^ (as being) of a hundred kos.

(21). 0 Farid, the nights are long, the sides begin to bum.

"Woe to the life of those, who put their hope on another!

(22). 0 Farid, if I am turned back, when my ft-iend has come:

My body * burns like MajTth, upon (it) are coals.

(23). 0 Farid, he desires Bijauri grapes and the Jat plants a Kikkar-tree.

He goes about spinning wool and wishes to put on silk-cloth.

(24). 0 Faiid, in the lanes is mud, the house is far away, with the beloved (I entertain love).

(If) I go, (my) blanket ° gets wet, (if) I remain (at home), love breaks asunder.

(25). May get wet and soaked the blanket, 0 Allah, may rain fall:

(Yet) I will go and meet with those friends, lest love break asunder.

(26). 0 Farid, I am in error about (my) turban, lest it become dirty.

(My) foolish mind does not know, that my head also will eat earth.

(27). 0 Farid, sugar, coarse sugar, refined sugar,^ molasses, honey, buffalo-milk:

All sweet things, 0 Lord, do not come up to thee.

(28). 0 Farid, my bread is of wood, my condiment is hunger.

By whom buttered bread is eaten, they will suffer much pain.

(29). Eat bare dry bread and drink cold water!

0 Farid, seeing the buttered bread of others do not tantalize (thy) soul!

(30). Till now she has not slept with (her) husband, (her) body is turned back.

Go and ask the ill-fated woman, how the night is passed by her?

(31). At her father's-in-law she gets no entrance, in her father's house she finds no place.

Her husband does not ask her a single word, (and yet) she is called a happy married woman.'