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Muslim / Sufi
17th Century

About Rahman Baba

Timeline (1653 - 1711)

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English version by
Jens Enevoldsen

Original Language
Pashto
Antics of the Age

Themes
  Freedom
  Silence
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Nightingale of Peshwar: Selections from Rahman Baba, Translated by Jens Enevoldsen

Contemplate the frantic
Efforts of the age
Countless are its antics
Boundless is its rage

Grieve in silence, brother!
Lest you keep your poise
Good men will be bothered
Evil men rejoice

Patience is a virtue
With the sweetest taste
When impatience hurts you,
Know, that haste is waste

Take on trust your fate if
You desire repose,
You would soon regret if
Something else you chose

Freedom cannot flourish
In your daily job
If a dream you nourish
Give your labour up

Falter shall the bustling
World, as I have said,
Should Rahman but trust in
What has got to fade?

 

 

-- from The Nightingale of Peshwar: Selections from Rahman Baba, Translated by Jens Enevoldsen

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