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The hour of the Universe' appearance was charming | The flower-bud of life was showering smiles

Here the golden crown, the sun was getting | There the moon its moon-light was getting

The dark gown to the night was being given | Training of brightness to stars was being given

The Existence's branch was getting leaves here | The bud of life was bursting out there

The angels were teaching weeping to the dew | For the first time the rose was laughing

They were conferring pathos on the poet's heart; Khudi for the wine of Bükhudi was pining.

For the first time dark black clouds were appearing | As if some Houri of Paradise with open hair was standing

The earth was claiming elegance of the sky | The space was claiming to be boundless

In short so beautiful the sight was | That seeing it in itself a panorama was

The angels their flying powers were testing | Eternal lights from their foreheads were appearing

An angel called Love there was | Whose guidance everyone's hope was

The angel who the embodiment of restlessness was | Angel among angels and restless like mercury he was

He was going towards the Paradise for a stroll | He met death on its way by the destiny's roll

He asked death, "What is the name and work of yours? | I do not want to encounter the face of yours"

Hearing this said the angel of death | "My work is clear, I am the angel of death

I shatter the chattels of existence | I extinguish the spark of life

The magic of annihilation is in my eyes | The message of destruction is its symhol

But there is one entity in the Universe | It is fire, I am only mercury before it

It lives in the human heart as a spark | It is the darling of the Divine Light

It constantly drips as tears from the eyes | The tears whose bitterness is tolerable"

When Love heard this from the death's lips , | Laughter started appearing from its lips

The thunder of such smile descended on death | How can darkness stay in front of such light?

On seeing eternity to death it fell | Death it was, to death it fell