Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.2.2

30.2.2

Is this the Resurrection day, or is it a calamity from heaven which has come to light? Is this a disaster, or has the day of Judgment appeared upon the earth? That breach which has appeared this year in Hindustan has given entrance to the flood of sedition below the foundation of the world. The assembly of his friends has been scattered like the petals of the rose before the wind. Autumn, the leaf-scatterer, has, one would say, appeared in the garden. Every eyelash, in the absence of friends, has become a spear-point to the eye, and each point of the spear has brought blood spouting forth to a spear's length. The heart writhes in agony since Time has broken the thread of companionship. When the string is broken the pearls are scattered far and wide. Such a flood of tears has been shed by the people on all sides that five fresh rivers have appeared around Multān. I wished to bring my heart's fire upon the tongue in the form of words, When lo! a hundred tongues of fire appeared within my mouth.
I am full of grief, empty of all desires, and tears are pouring forth from both my eyes; even the eye is weeping on account of the picture of grief which is its appearance.
Weeping has taken the bloom off my cheek, and alienated me, by means of it, that has left my cheek: and the boar has rejoiced in filth.
The planets are all convened in my eyes; therefore it portends a storm, since in a watery constellation a conjunction of planets is.