Ginan 39 by Pir Sadruddin
(Ibid: 43-47)




1. The True Guide (Satguru) says: 'listen, 0 you, my believers, 'the Royal Master (sahib raja) has commanded thus:

2. Keep in your heart the truth of the faith, for the day of Judgment is declared,

3. The day of Judgment approaches, listen and take note of its reality,

4. Know the truth of the Royal Master's commands, and hearing those commands, take note!

5. The Royal Master has fixed the day of Judgment long before the cosmic time of eight lakhs of years,

6. Take heed, 0 my believers, and why wander? -that day has come very near,

7. 0 my believers, that day has come nearer, the Royal Master will appear riding from the West,

8. Many deities (devas) from the beginning of time will meet, the Lord will lead many armies,

9. Those armies will meet all the deities, and will march into the Subcontinent (Jambudvīpa),

10. With devotion, the Lord will bear the light of the Prophet, in Arabian garb,

11. The demon Kalingo dwells in the direction known as Chinab (Nagari) City,[12]

12. There, he too has many armies, they too appear riding together,

13. Then both armies shall fight there, deities and demons will fall upon each other,

14. Swords will clatter upon swords and the demon Kalingo will fall there,

15. ln killing the demon, the Lord will subdue all, the Royal master will bring about the day of rejoicing,

16. The Lord Master will wed the Virgin Earth and let the believers rule,

17. For a lakh and a quarter of years, and the great day (mahadin) will be declared,

18. Then will be the Settlement of sins and virtues, then will the master reckon every small thing,

19. That day will be as long as half a lakh of years, on that day all creatures will be weighed,

20. Their hidden sins will be exposed, thirty-three crores of deities will also appear together,

21. The sun will heat with countless rays, and a rain of fire will fall,

22. Waves of fire will roll from the skies, like torrential rain,

23. All vegetation, all rocks and mountains, burned many times, will turn into charcoal,

24. And the water of the rivers will fall, and the land will be barren,

25. The shape of earth will change such as it will resemble copper,

26. The sinners will burn in the brazier of fire, there mankind will be subdued,

27. My Lord Master will pitch his tent and from his throne will check every last thing.

28. The master will inquire of every sin in detail, and then the sinners will bum.

29. Servant, master, young and old, all will be as one.

30. The Lord of Resurrection (Kayam) will be the Judge, and there he will assume Arabian form.

31. My Lord will accept no petition, will do as his heart inclines.

32. Those who have accepted the Guide Master but have not participated in the community (ghat)

nor done any good deed to accompany them,

33. 0 friends, their bodies will bum like a wick in a lamp.

34. Believers will slander believers, know this truly, such people will most surely go to hell.

35. 0 friends, their bodies will crumple like paper under pressure.

36-37. When believers do not participate in the community (ghat), and indulge in drinking wine and smoking tobacco,

0 my believers, know this truly, such people will most surely go to hell.

38. Surely will the sinners be caught, and none will protect them when they are beaten.

39. Hammer blows will fall on their heads, sounding like the thunder of a hast of clouds.

40. The Master will punish the sinners by setting their heads upside down,

41. The brain of the skull will protrude through the ears -thus will the Lord examine every small thing.

42. Eight crores of iron bars will there be rolling, and these will be inserted into the body's veins.

43. None will care to ask of your pain or your pleasure, there will be no father, no mother, no brother or sister.

44. Moving the hands will break the bones, no one will be your companion,

45. Whatever good deeds or virtues you perform, those only will stand by you,

46. The one who acts by paying tithes (dasond), he will have hope in the Lord Master.

47. For him the final day will pass effortlessly, he will sit with the Lord Master.

48-49. The believers who do not participate in the community (ghat) and fix their love on the world,

their every sin will be endlessly examined, skin will be pinched with pincers,

50-51. The believers who worship at others' temples and stray on others' pilgrimages,

such people will be questioned by the Royal Master and will suffer strokes of the hammer,

52. 0 my believers, listen to the reality of the great day, pain and sorrow will both weigh heavily.

53. After hearing this scripture you must speak truth, and ever after earn merit,

54. 0 my believers, always meet in the community (ghat), where both the Lord and Master come,

55. By meeting in the community (ghat), you can settle your account of sins which the

Master scrutinizes on the day of judgment.

56. Listen to these teachings and act truthfully, my brothers, do meditate.

57. The Lord has spoken of it for ages past, you must certainly act now,

58. Act truthfully by the Satpanth (true path), and perform good deeds by day and night.

59. Such a ginan Pir Sadruddin has said: 0 all the community, keep your faith!


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