Indeed, all joy has departed from it, *** and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows (that this world does not remain in happiness, but rather sorrows and worry intermingle with it, unlike Paradise)
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The Shaykh :"Indeed, all joy has departed from it *** and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows"
This means: that the joys of this world do not last, but rather they are replaced by sorrows. The poet says:
"A day is against us and a day is for us *** A day we are slaves and a day we are masters"
And the other says:
"There is no sweetness in life as long as it is spoiled *** In its essence by the remembrance of death and old age"
And both the first and the second are truthful. You hardly pass two days while you are happy without something spoiling it, whether from your own self, or from your family, or from your companions, or from society. Every living person, whose heart is alive, must experience this.
Also, suppose a person is in the best of living conditions and farthest from problems; if he thinks for a moment: what is the end? The end is one of two things: either death or old age. If you die, you are finished; if you grow old, you have suffered and caused others to suffer. That is why you find that an old person who reaches the stage of senility is a burden to his family. They put him in a corner of the house where he talks and shouts, and no one comes to him, not even his own family.
"So there is no sweetness to life as long as it is spoiled *** by the remembrance of death and oldage" This is the end of this world.
"So know that all joy has departed from it *** and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows"
This means: that the joys of this world do not last, but rather they are replaced by sorrows. The poet says:
"A day is against us and a day is for us *** A day we are slaves and a day we are masters"
And the other says:
"There is no sweetness in life as long as it is spoiled *** In its essence by the remembrance of death and old age"
And both the first and the second are truthful. You hardly pass two days while you are happy without something spoiling it, whether from your own self, or from your family, or from your companions, or from society. Every living person, whose heart is alive, must experience this.
Also, suppose a person is in the best of living conditions and farthest from problems; if he thinks for a moment: what is the end? The end is one of two things: either death or old age. If you die, you are finished; if you grow old, you have suffered and caused others to suffer. That is why you find that an old person who reaches the stage of senility is a burden to his family. They put him in a corner of the house where he talks and shouts, and no one comes to him, not even his own family.
"So there is no sweetness to life as long as it is spoiled *** by the remembrance of death and oldage" This is the end of this world.
"So know that all joy has departed from it *** and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows"