On the day of his departure from this temporary halting-place to the eternal mansion of repose and the exalted seat of happiness, his disconsolate friends and affectionate domestics were deeply afflicted; but Shidosh retained his cheerfulness and thus addressed them with an expression of delight: “I am not grieved at this disease of body, why then do you grieve? nay ought you not to wish that I, having quitted this gloomy abode of phantasy, should hasten to one beyond the confines of space, and the mansions of intellect may become united to the truly existent and independent (first cause).” The Maulavi Mânavi says thus: “If death be a human being, say to him, ‘draw near,’ That I may closely fold him in a fond embrace. From him I extort by force eternal life, Whilst he but snatches from me the Durvish’s party-colored dress.” He then lifted up his hands and directing his face to heaven, the Kiblah of prayer, recited the following blessed couplets front the _Sahifah al Auliya_, “volume of the Saints,” written by the Imam _Muhammed Nur Baksh_. “Whether we are directors or guides[338] Still do we want to be guided, on account of the infancy of our steps. We are but solitary drops from the ocean of existence, However much we possess of divine revelation and proof. I am far from the great reservoir of drops, Convey me, O God, to the boundless ocean of light!” On reciting these lines he closed his eyes. The Shaikh Abúlfaiz Faiyazi says on this subject: “The drop became a fountain, and the fountain grew into a river, Which river became reunited to the ocean of eternity.” This event occurred in the year of the Hejirah 1040 (A. D. 1629): his affectionate friends expressed their grief in the following manner: “Thy brilliant hues still exist in the parterre, Thy fragrance still survives in the jessamine; The sight of thee is put off to the day of resurrection; It is well: but it forms the theme of many a tale.” The author also in his elegy on Shídósh thus expresses his grief: “Since Shídósh departed from my sight That which was a receptacle of eyes became a receptacle of rivers; Had my eyes been a channel, they would have become a river-bed: The resting place of the bird was the paradisian sphere: From this lowly nest he departed to the nest on high. He was truly free and sought no stores except those of holy freedom. He abandoned his body to corporeal matter, and his spirit joined the spiritual region. His soul was united to the sublime being, the creator of souls, Soaring beyond the limits of heaven, earth, and time.”