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With so many obstacles, so many emotions All the joie de vivre, all the miseries The trials and the tribulations The triumphs, and the losses All remain, etched, forever. Now, where can I go Than to sit in the corner of our little abode Looking at the doorway Through which he came back, once for the last time Wrapped in a white sheet His face was white too, bloodless. I don’t have to shut the door anymore No, I have nothing to fear anymore As Mansoor has the whole of the sky to himself now. Note: In Islam, especially Sufism, rūḥ (Arabic: ; plural arwah) is a person's immortal, essential self, i.e. the "spirit" or "soul" (“atma” in Hinduism). Although the Quran doesn’t describe rūḥ as the immortal self, the writer has used this to mean the holy spirit, which the Quran refers to as Ruh al-qudus. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5#The_Spirit,_al- Ruh,_in_the_Quran 127