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One comes across many heart rending sentences written on tombstones if one takes a round of any cemetery .These writings if on the one hand expose the fragility of human life on earth on the other they are full of wisdom. Some of these gems of literature are reproduced below:
- I am not today what I was yesterday.
In a cemetery in Malakand some heart rendering verses written in Pustho on a headstone and translated in English said:
- I once also looked what you look today
- You will become dust which I have become today
Once queen of India Noor Jehan who was a poetess of Persian language said some verses during her life time ordering that those should be written on the headstone of her grave after her death. Those words are as under:
- I am such unfortunate that nobody lits any candle on my grave nor leave any flower neither is any burnt feather of any bird found on my grave nor one hears song of any bird
One has to visit only Noor Jehan tomb today to see how prophetic were her words as her tomb lies in utter desolation.
