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1758-1767

  • A certain woman said to her husband, “Hey, O you who have finished with generosity once and for all,
  • Why have you no care for me? How long shall I dwell in this abode of misery?”
  • The husband replied, “I am doing my best to earn money; though I am destitute, I am moving hand and foot. 1760
  • O beloved, it is my duty (to provide you with) money and clothes: you get both these from me and they are not insufficient.”
  • The wife showed (him) the sleeve of her chemise: the chemise was very coarse and dirty.
  • “It is so rough,” said she, “it eats (wounds) my body: does any one get a garment of this kind for any one?”
  • He said, “O wife, I will ask you one question. I am a poor man: this is all I know (how to do).
  • This (chemise) is rough and coarse and disagreeable, but think (well), O thoughtful (anxious) wife! 1765
  • Is this (chemise) rougher and nastier, or divorce? Is this (chemise) more odious to you, or separation?”
  • Even so, O Khwája who art reviling on account of affliction and poverty and distress and tribulations,