“Whether we are directors or guides[338]
Still do we want to be guided, on account of the infancy of our steps.
We are but solitary drops from the ocean of existence,
However much we possess of divine revelation and proof.
I am far from the great reservoir of drops,
Convey me, O God, to the boundless ocean of light!”
On reciting these lines he closed his eyes. The Shaikh Abúlfaiz Faiyazi says on this subject:
“The drop became a fountain, and the fountain grew into a river,
Which river became reunited to the ocean of eternity.”
This event occurred in the year of the Hejirah 1040 (A. D. 1629): his affectionate friends expressed their grief in the following manner: