VI: Entertain not, O brother! great friendship towards the…

Entertain not, O brother! great friendship towards the world:
Dost thou not, the raids of separation, on all sides perceive?

'Tis to depart and pass away: the world is not thy tarrying place:
Whether king or beggar, all will certainly to the grave go down!

Whether the prelate, or the priest, or the accomplished in learning,
Not one, by any contrivance, shall from death's debt escape!

They who are by sanctity inspired, pursue not mundane love;
With that of the Beloved One, there is no love to be compared!

Since thou showest such yearning after the world's greatness,
What is it after all? reflect well, and of thy dear friends think!

I was calmly reposing in my abode, along with my beloved,
When the horsemen of separation carried me hand-bound away!

All my loved ones, from time to time, have been taken from me:
The tablets of my heart have been blotted all over by grief!

I, Khwajah Muhammad, in bereavement's flame, consume;
Hence sighs and lamentations, irrepressibly, issue from my mouth!