What’s life
if there are no struggle and gain?
What’s love
if no pleasure and pain?

Existing like the dead
lying on the bed
of soil
will spoil
the goal of life, o Man.

Who can
be a Majnu* if he
does not fall in the sea
of pain?
Without suffering, there’s no gain.

*Majnu means Kayes, a legendary lover of Laila