Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 38 — what did you do with your days
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Farid says: you lost the hours of the day wandering around, and the hours of the night sleeping.
The Lord will ask for your account: "What did you come here to do?"
Days spent wandering and nights spent sleeping leave one question to answer: what was this life for?
Chaar gavaa-i-aa handh kai: four watches of the day lost in roaming about. Chaar gavaa-i-aa samm: four watches of the night lost in sleep. In Farid's time the day and the night were each split into four watches, so this means the whole day and the whole night.
Laykhaa rab mangaysee-aa: Rab, the Lord, will ask for the account. The question is simple: what did you come for? Farid asks it so that the time still left is spent well.
If you looked back on this week, what would you be most glad you spent time on?
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