Pashto Proverbs

پشتو متلونه

Topic: Death - مرګ

Almost every thought here below expressed is familiar to us; for peoples who believe in a God and a future state of reward and punishment have necessarily a similarity of ideas on death. Christian and Musalman, both feel that it is unpleasant to leave this beautiful world, and the ties that bind them to it, but they know that the severance must come, and reconcile themselves to the inevitable by the reflection that an all-wise God pre-ordains for every man his span of life. While the former often lives and dies unhappily, racked with doubts and fears as to the state of his soul, the latter passes his life with mind at ease, never letting such thoughts disturb him, and meets his end with cool indifference. The reason is to be found in the different religious beliefs of the two, which for the former is, in many material points, perplexing, incomprehensible, and inexplicable; but for the latter, simple, intelligible, and precise. Thus it is that on his death bed a believer in Islam has a lively assurance of salvation; but an ordinary Christian can have none such, unless possessed of a vast amount of faith, which perhaps too often arises from unwarranted self-satisfaction. - [S.S. Thorburn., Bannu Our Afghan Frontier]

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• Though a grave be a jail, it is unavoidable for the corpse
  که ګبر زندان دې، د مړي ناکامه ده
  This is from the Persian
   

• Death is certain, but a grave and a shroud are doubtful
  مرګ حق دې، خو ګبر و کفن په شک دې
  This is from Persian also
   

• Who dies, has lost
  چې مړ شو، هغه پڼ شو
  So our "Death's day is doom's day"
   

• When there is death, there is no happiness
  چې مرګې شته، نو ښادي نيشته
   

• Until a man is under the sod, he won't become concealed
  پټ به پاته نه شي، چې تر خاؤرو لاندې نه شي
   

• Everyone thinks his own grave is too narrow
  خپل ګبر هر چا ته تنګ ښکارېږي
  Refers to a man never being contented
   

• Death is not for the young, nor for the old (but for all)
  مرګ نه په واړه دې، او نه په زاړه
  So our "Death devours lambs as well as sheep"
   

• Until the one dies, the other won't be satisfied
  چې يو مړ نه شي، بل موړ نه شي
   

• But for death on everyone would be his own roof
  که نه وي بير مئي په هر چا به ابادي وي خپلي بسييئي
   

• The dead wish the judgement day to be even sooner
  مړي په وړاندې قيامت باندې رضا وي
  That is, when a man must go through a certain ordeal, he desires it as soon as possible, as anything is better than a lot of suspense.
   

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