Guru Nanak Chamatkar (Part 2)-Bhai Vir Singh English ... - Vidhia.com

310 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - II
Ubare Khan: Well you cannot tell but, 0 handsome friend, you hJ1ve
some little speck with your own hands of what you have got as grace.
Sheikh Malo: (heaving a Sigh) A beggar, what can he give from the grace
he has got by begging. Yes, the benevolent (with tears in eyes), the living
benevolent the merciful benevolent, can give if he wishes. One who has
spread his lap at the door, what can he give?
Ubare Khan: Well, he may not give, but he should not become dumb for
telling the door of the auspicious handsome benevolent. Your tongue has
become without sentiments, with friends it does not speak. Is it fair to keep
silence with old friends?
Sheikh Malo: Who can hide the sun and the moon? Who can lock the
breeze in a box? Who can hold the showering clouds in his palm? Who can
hold the galaxy of stars in his lap? Who can hide a godly soul, an image ofthe
Lord behind a curtain?
Ubare Khan: Then if you have got a glimpse, you get me his glimpse too.
Sheikh Malo: If somebody gets a glimpse and ih'11ores, then what is the
remedy? Ifsomebody does not open his eyes when the glimpse is in front of
him, then who can help?
Ubare Khan: Well. Is friendship, well wishing, love, sentiment, emotion,
affection, sincerity only this much that one may give indications to friends who
have eyes but do not see and not take him to the door by leading with a club?
Sheikh Malo: 0 friend, the road to love is mountainous. To tread on the
path of devotion is difficult. It requires total sacrifice of one's self. It requires
extreme loyalty, like the humility of a dry broken tree leaf to the breeze. You
are a handsome Muslim chief. Your head is full with pride. Then you are a
Muslim but in ih'11orance ofthe Lord and you have ego that you are a Pathan.
But on this path one has to tread on the edge of a sword and hop on thorns.
Ubare Khan: Now, you don't put more riddles. You have already hopped.
You have already treaded on the thin edge of a sword. I have seen the lustre
on your face. Won't you show me this thin edge ofthe sword? Rest, what you
said of my being a Pathan chief. The Moghuls have already shattered the
pride of Pathans. The pride of Pathans has come down like the trunk of the
elephant. You make it longer. Spread it under the feet ofthe beloved. (Nodding
his head) 0 yes, 0 friend, you are no less. I am uneducated but you are a
learned scholar and could beat anyone in debate. Even you have bowed
down your egoistic head to somebody and made your face handsome and .
lustrous.
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