Part of The Pre-Dawn Breeze (series completed)
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Breeze of Magic | Episode (2) | Search for happiness
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The dawn breeze.
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The search for happiness.
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Man desires to live happily without misery,
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At ease without hardship,
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Healthy without ailment,
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Living in abundance without distress,
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Enjoying whatever pleasures he wishes,
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Without prohibition or disturbances,
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With a life clear of all vexations.
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He wants no sorrow to make him swallow the pain of a beautiful past he has lost,
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Nor grief to make him drink the bitterness
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Of a difficult present he has encountered,
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Nor anxiety to wither his body
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Over a future whose calamities he fears.
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He seeks a life in which there is no parting from a relative,
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No absence of a loved one,
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No longing for the lost,
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And no toil with the present.
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He does not want to see the horizons of his life
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Devoid of smiles,
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Or unpopulated by security and peace.
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He wishes for the sun to rise upon him
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With a day whose radiance brings him joy,
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And to set with the coming of a night
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In which he finds refuge with what he loves and whom he loves.
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He wants life to smile upon him,
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So he sees no frown upon its face
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That would bequeath him pain and regret.
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If he turns in its directions for his needs,
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He finds ease and fulfillment,
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Meeting him only with the desired bounty,
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And the attainment of whatever he seeks.
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This is how we want this life to be,
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And this is how we search through its corners.
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Yet, despite all of this,
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We do not reach everything we desire.
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Thus, our sides remain
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Tossing upon the embers of pain,
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Awaiting safety.
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And whenever we grasp one aspect of it,
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Another escapes us.
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And so we remain panting
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After the perfection of happiness,
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Without ever reaching in this life
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The entirety of our goal.
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These words that we shall present every dawn,
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Until the end of the month, if Allah wills,
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Are but capsules
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That soothe the aches of souls distressed
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In the embrace of hardship,
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And remedies for other souls
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That have been captured by agony.
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For perhaps a word has healed the wounded,
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And revived the grief-stricken.
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Perhaps letters have poured down from the clouds of truth,
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Washing away the filth of sorrows from the soul,
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And watering it with tranquility and solace.
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Indeed, a word may bring joy to a person for a lifetime,
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Driving happiness toward him amidst the persistence of grief.
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The dawn breeze in bringing happiness to mankind.