Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
For the person who has Your support, even death itself becomes a friend.
Their wrongs are all forgiven, and Your servant gazes on the sight of You.
This is the shabad's landmark, and one of the most beautiful lines in the raag: for the one who has the One's support, "Azraa-eel, the Messenger of Death, is the friend." The great terror is transformed into a companion. For a life anchored in the deathless One, dying is not an enemy that ends everything but a friend who opens the door home. This is the raag's Persian-Islamic imagery turned to its most consoling use: the angel of death, feared by all, becomes a friend to the one who loves the One.
What would it change in you to relate to your deepest fear as, one day, possibly a friend?
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