The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 595

0 Farid, I desire my own beloved, thou desirest coals.

(44). 0 Farid, some have much flour, some have no salt (even).

Having gone on (to the other world) they will be known, who will be beaten in the face.

(45). With (them) are kettle-drums, umbrellas on the head, pipers ' and minstrels.^

Having gone they are fallen asleep in the cemetery, like the poor' they are buried.

(46). 0 Farid, though they were erecting houses, halls, upper-storied houses, yet they are gone.

Having made a false traffic they are gone and sunk in the grave.

(47). 0 Farid, in a patched quilt there are many pins, in the life there is no one.''

At their several turns the ShOkhs have departed.

(48). 0 Farid, whilst the two lamps' were burning, the angel (of death) came and sat down.

The fort (of the body) was taken, the heart robbed, he went away having extinguished the lamps.

(49). 0 Farid, look, what is done to cotton, what has happened to the sesam-seeds!

(What) to the sugar-cane and paper in a pit of burning coals!

This is the punishment for those, who do bad works.

' A-iih (s-/-)' name of a certain plant, apparently poisonous.

* M^66, composed of H3, call, cry, and B3(='3^. ^W^T. to scream, to cry), literally: uttering a cry or scream, as tlieir singing amounts usually to a screaming.

= nr^^H. corrupted from »^j, an orphan, a lielpless, poor person. »H3l'*n (= W3^t) is tlie Geu. Plur., the postposition f^T^ being omitted.

" The sense is: life cannot be kept togetlier by means of plus as a patched quilt.

(50). 0 Farld, on the shoulder is the prayer-carpet, on the neck a woollen shirt,' in the heart a dagger, molasses in the mouth.

Outward light is seen, in the heart there is dark night.

(51). 0 Farid, not a hit of blood issues, if one cut the body.

Those who are in love with the Lord, in their body is no blood.

(52). Mail. III. This body is aU blood, without blood there is no body.

Who are enamoured with (their) beloved, in that (their) body there is no blood of greediness.

"When fear has fallen (on it),^ the body becomes emaciated, the blood of greediness recedes from within.

As by fire the metal becomes purified, so the fear of Hari removes the filth of folly.

Nanak (says): those bodies are beautiful, which are steeped in the colour of Hari.

(53). 0 Farid, seek (that) pond, from which the thing is obtained!

"What is the good of seeking a pool? the hand sinks into the mire.

(54). 0 Farid, when young I did not enjoy my beloved, having become old I died.'