Wisdom
If you say, “I don’t want to carry the grief of the world,”
Translated from Uzbek · Original text
If you say, “I don’t want to carry the grief of the world,”If you say, “I don’t want to load mountains on my shoulders,”If you say, “I don’t want to taste poisons every day,”Never share your secrets with the people of the world.If you say, “I don’t want to meet reproach from the Truth,”If you say, “I don’t want to walk the street of humiliation,”If you say, “I don’t want to reap the harvest of regret,”Never share your secrets with the people of the world.Your pains are foreign to him,He is the slave of the day, a stranger to the night.If he is the night’s slave, he is a stranger to the dawn,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.He cannot climb out of the pit of heedlessness,He cannot grasp the true word within his heart,He cannot grieve as lovers grieve,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.The cares of this world have conquered his being,The cares of the Hereafter have slipped from his mind.Your heart is filled with the care for faithfulness,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.He will plunge daggers into your very heart,His hands will tear out, his feet will trample.He will scatter poisons over your skies,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.He is black as darkness, dreadful as hell,His mind forever a captive of ignorance.He keeps a sting at the tip of his tongue,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.The lover burns one day, and tomorrow he is ash,The poor one is a slave to grief and sorrow.Do not spare the whims of your nafs — kill them,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.You are the kernel, he will never be your shell,He will never be true to his word.He will be no friend in either world,Never share your secrets with the people of the world.Akrom MALIK
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