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O manly heart, the goal you seek is hard to gain like gem unique:
Get firm resolve and freedom true, if aim of life you wish to woo. |
Like Sanjar great and Tughral just to rule and conquer learn you must:
Or like a qalandar true and bold the wont and way of monarch hold. |
Farabi’s thirst for lore beget, or Rumi’s fever great and fret:
You need a thinker’s lofty gaze, or Moses’ passion to amaze. |
Learn the wolfish tricks and guile, be like Franks in wit and wile:
Else own the passion of God’s Hand, or strike the foes like Tartar band. |
Act on Muslim law and rites, or sit in fane like acolytes:
Be it the Shrine or temple high, ever like a drunkard cry. |
In whatsoever state you be, a fettered thrall or monarch free:
No wonder ever can be wrought, with Love, if courage be not fraught. |
Translated by: Syed Akbar Ali Shah |
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