How to live a life?

 

 

 بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The following couplets is are shared under the name of Khwaja Muʿinuddin Chishti (Ajmer)—but academic discussion points to a common mix‑up: a published Dīvān repeatedly printed in South Asia under “Muʿinuddin Chishti” have been argued to actually belong to Muʿin al‑Dīn Farāhī Haravī (known as Mullā Miskīn / “Muʿīnī”), and that Muʿinuddin Chishti himself did not compose poetry.

  وقتی که تو آمدی به دنیا عریان

 مردم همه خندان و تو بودی گریان

 کاری بکن ای دوست که وقت رفتن

 مردم همه گریان و تو باشی خندان

You entered the world in tears; all smiled at your birth,
and your arrival made every heart glad.
So live today (do good works) that when the day comes to leave,
you go with a smile—and all others weep.

 

Quoting an anonymous poet:

.چنان بزی که اگر مرگ ماست مرگ دوام
خدا ز کردهٔ خود شرمسار تر گردد

Live in such a way that, if our death is a death that abides,

God Himself would become shy of His  deed [making our death everlasting].