Muntakhab al-tawarikh 143.3

143.3

I increased my desire and my heart is in grief, And within my bowels a fire is kindled. When will the absent return from their long journey? * * * * “My dear one, — At this time of dejection in my separation from every friend and stranger I had come to regard the news even of those who asked after the well-being of all as a letter-carrier and messenger, and used to hope for greetings and a message, when suddenly your affectionate letter took the place of a prescription for the restoration to health of those cast down with melancholy at separation from their friends, and redoubled my desire to see you, and my affection. Now the verses of that holy man of the Qadiri order, the seething of whose waves of eloquence astonishes and bewilders the soul, expel the anguish of my heart, and I beg that you will excuse me (for quoting them) : —