How should I weep before the Lord? I know not any particular method or formula in that behalf. All that I do at present is to lift my hands, moistened with tears, and cry aloud.

Note: In this verse and those following it Shah has, it seems, referred to a tradition to the effect that in Namaz a devotee should either shed tears of submission or assume appearance of a weeping man. Shah, in his poetic mood, has called it hypocrisy, vide verse No. 6:
می تواند کہ دہد اشک مرا حسن قبول
آنکہ دُر ساختہ است قطرہ باراں را

It is possible that He may approve my tears - He who converts a raindrop into a pearl.
Note: In connection with weeping the following extract (translated by me) from the

How to weep before the beloved, I know not,
Raising my tears-drenched hands I roan about in wilderness.