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Bilgrami— Quatrains of Baba Tahir. [No. 1. 
tor lias taken the word as the dialectal form of btesei and has 
translated it as such. But it is not so, the idiom «-aJ means 
to open the lips to smile or laugh. 
3. 
The translation of this Quatrain read with the footnotes is quite 
correct, and requires no comment. 
4. 
1. I am troubled by (the phrase) “ They said yes.” 
2 . I have more sins than the leaves of trees. 
3. When to-morrow the readers of the book (of deeds) read their 
books. 
4. I, book in hand, shall hang my head. 
In the 2nd line, the word mjj Id darun , is the plural of jfa a tree. It 
has no connection whatsoever withjt<i dar, the gallows, nor with 
darvan , an elm. The word barg should be read barg-i , i.e. y 
“ leaves of.” • v 
In the 3rd line fccji “ the readers of the book ” does not 
mean the Recording Angels. According to the Mussulmans every 
person’s deeds are recorded by the Recording Angels in a book, called 
JU*f “ the book of deeds.” On the day of judgment everyone is 
given his book to read his own deeds out of, in the presence of God. 
Here the poet says that “ when those with clean sheets read their books, 
I, being a sinful person, with my book in hand, shall hold my head 
down.” 
5 . 
1. Lord ! who am I, and with whom should I associate ? 
2. How long should I be with lashes full of bloody tears ? 
3. When all turn me awav from their doors, I come to thee. 
4. And if Thou turnest me away from Thy door, to whom shall 
I go ? 
The word is synonymous with both j*Ab and In the 
1st and 2nd lines means j*Ab; but in the 4th line it means 
The word b is synonymous with su,ji bari, and jb baz , and means 
“ to, ” “ return to, ” or “ turn to. ” The expression &hkjb baz hhanah sliud 
means, “he returned home.” means y “towards thee,” and 
u 
it is not correct to take it as the dialectal form of 
6 . 
1. In this homeless state to whom shall I go ? 
2. With this houselessness to whom shall I turn ? 
