O preacher, I am not worried about the Day of Judgment; my concern is that if the world itself is mortal, how can faith remain?
The poet playfully challenges the preacher's obsession with the terrifying Day of Judgment. Rather than fearing the apocalypse, he poses a clever philosophical paradox: religion and righteousness exist only because this mortal world provides a testing ground for them. If this transient world itself is wiped out, on what foundation will faith endure, and what meaning will deeds even hold?
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