210 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



}i J. ;U» c*j ; c^ji j_j o^ji 



& Jv> ;<> *& g*» i*il jl /- 



Can there be anything better in life than its 

 end, 



When lover is joined to beloved, and friend to 

 friend ? 



Line 4.— Shortly before his death he called one 

 Hassan i-Muaddab to his bedside, and said to 

 him:—" Remember that I called you not to self; 

 I called you to the denial of self." 1 



60. 



Heartless She is, J know, and seeks excuses ; 

 Though I do not suffer, yet I know Her cruel ways. 

 Tyranny and injustice are Her only trade. 

 Well, well do I know the ways of my Beloved. 



Compare the Masnavi (page 30. Whinfield's 

 translation). 



Let me then, I say, make complaint 

 Of the severity of that Fickle Fair One. 

 I cry, and my cries sound sweet in His ear; 

 He requires from the two worlds cries and 

 groans. 



(The famous mystical treatise called the Mas- 

 navi was composed by Jalal-ud-din Rumi, the 

 greatest of all the Sufis, who lived from a.d. 1207 

 to 1273). 



61. 



Nor garden, nor pleasaunce, nor lawn do I want ; 

 JNor cypress, nor rose, nor jasmine. 

 I only ask from my God for a retreat 



Where T ma.v h« alAno mH-u u:„ i. T . 



62. 



T fe? J f • F ' and l Slew [t in fire and water. 

 1 killed it ma moment by writing and by spell. 



Once again m my sweat I drowned it • " 

 Drowned it. as ftmntrh if. mn .„ *u„ i. ', . , ,-.. 



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1 See Hdlat-y Sukhundn, pp. 62-70. 



