Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 39 — the gong at the Lord's door
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Farid says: you went to the Lord's door — did you see the gong hanging there?
This blameless thing is struck again and again. What will happen to us, who have done wrong?
If even a blameless gong is struck every hour, those who do wrong have good reason to look at how they live.
Dar darvaajai jaa-ay kai: going to the door of the Lord. Ki-o ditho gharhee-aal: did you see the gharhee-aal, the gong that is struck to mark each hour? It has done nothing wrong, and still it is hit, hour after hour.
Ham dosaa(n) daa ki-aa haal: then what of us, who carry mistakes? Farid counts himself among them. The gong also marks time passing, one strike for each hour gone.
What is one mistake you could set right today?
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