Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 30 — the long night of missing love
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Tonight I did not sleep beside my Husband, and now my whole body aches and twists.
Go and ask the lonely bride, the one left alone: how does your night pass?
A night spent apart from the Beloved is long, and the whole self aches with missing.
Farid uses an old picture of a bride who spent the night apart from her husband. Ang murhay murh jaa-ay: her body turns and twists, and she cannot rest. In these verses the bride is the soul, and the husband is the One. Anyone, girl or boy, young or old, can feel this ache.
Jaa-ay puchhahu dohaaganee: go and ask the lonely bride how her night goes. Think of a sleepover far from home: at bedtime you miss your own bed and your family, and the night feels long. The ache shows how much the closeness means.
When you are apart from someone you love, what helps you feel close to them anyway?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI