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Pir Shams

O slave of God! Wake up since God does not like you to sleep all night. Neither (you) care for soul, O slave! Nor prepare provision (for hereafter). The Lord loves only those who rise in dawn (for meditation). The hurries (special heavenly blessings) will not give their hands to those who do not rise at dawn. Such (lazy) will (later) repent, smearing their hands, just as a (lazy) farmer misses the sowing season....1

O servant! Your pillow (body) is lying on thorns (material desires). Looking at the red flowers (attraction of the world), do not lose (your) aim (for coming in the world)....2

The spinning woman has spun when people slept. She spun much cotton alone, thoroughly....3

Everybody will be illiterate and nobody in the world will understand. Each one would have the knowledge of (wearing) the clothes and dresses, but nobody will have the knowledge (of reality). Those who come wearing silken clothes would be worshipped as God. O Brothers! Beware in advance and consider these ten facts to be true. When the world is deprived of prosperity, love modesty like there are (all the) ten things, it will be an indication of the appearance of doomsday. Pir Shams, the darwish also imparts likewise: The time for the appearance of the Lord is matured .....4