M1:3945 — ان فی موتی حیاتی یا فتی / کم افارق موطنی حتی متی

This couplet is spoken by a soul deeply immersed in divine love, for whom the conventional understanding of life and death is inverted. The first hemistich, "Indeed, in my death is my life, O youth!" (an adaptation of a famous Sufi saying, also echoed in the previous couplet), directly challenges the fear of death. For the mystic, physical death is not an end but a liberation, a return to the eternal life of union with the Beloved. It signifies the death of the ego and the worldly self, which is a prerequisite for the soul's true awakening and everlasting existence in God.

The second hemistich, "How long shall I abandon my homeland, and until when?" expresses a profound yearning. The 'homeland' (mowṭen) here refers to the soul's divine origin, its true home in the spiritual realm, from which it has been separated by its descent into the material world. The speaker's question is not one of complaint but of intense longing, a passionate desire to shed the constraints of earthly existence and return to that primordial union. This couplet encapsulates the Sufi concept of fanā (annihilation of the self) leading to baqā (subsistence in God), where the perceived loss of the worldly self is the actual gain of eternal life.