Death
Legend says that when Qais Abdur Rashid felt his time was near, he asked his sons to take him from Ghor to the Sulaiman Mountains to bury him at the spot where his ancestor Malak Afghana was buried, and he was buried on top of the Kesai Ghar ("Mount of Qais"), located in the Zhob District of Balochistan. Some people visit the place and make animal sacrifices, usually a sheep or a goat, at the tomb of Qais as to help feed the poor. Nearly all major Pashtun tribes are said to be the progeny of his sons and daughters.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass,
By atoms moved.
Could you believe that this the body was
Of one that loved?
And in his mistress’ flame playing like a fly,
Turned to cinders by her eye?
Yes, and in death as life unblest,
To have’t expressed,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Young lover to old lover: I do not feel death in your embrace, but the adoration of the patriarchs.”
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