خود قوی‌‌تر می‌‌شود خمر کهن ** خاصه آن خمری که باشد من لدن‌‌

Verily, old wine grows more potent, especially the wine that is the presence of God.

پیر را بگزین که بی‌‌پیر این سفر ** هست بس پر آفت و خوف و خطر

Choose a Pír, for without a Pír this journey is exceeding full of woe and affright and danger.

آن رهی که بارها تو رفته‌‌ای ** بی‌‌قلاووز اندر آن آشفته‌‌ای‌‌

Without an escort you are bewildered (even) on a road you have travelled many times (before):

پس رهی را که ندیده ستی تو هیچ ** هین مرو تنها ز رهبر سر مپیچ‌‌ 2945

Do not, then, travel alone on a Way that you have not seen at all, do not turn your head away from the Guide.

گر نباشد سایه‌‌ی او بر تو گول ** پس ترا سر گشته دارد بانگ غول‌‌

Fool, if his shadow (protection) be not over you, then the cry of the ghoul will keep you (wandering about) with your head in a whirl.

غولت از ره افکند اندر گزند ** از تو داهی‌‌تر در این ره بس بدند

The ghoul will (entice you) from the Way (and) cast you into destruction: there have been in this Way many craftier than you (who have perished miserably).

از نبی بشنو ضلال رهروان ** که چشان کرد آن بلیس بد روان‌‌

Hear (learn) from the Qur’án the perdition of the wayfarers, what the evil-souled Iblís did unto them:

صد هزاران ساله راه از جاده دور ** بردشان و کردشان ادبار و عور

He carried them far—a journey of hundreds of thousands of years—from the Highway, and made them backsliders and naked (devoid of good works).

استخوانهاشان ببین و مویشان ** عبرتی گیر و مران خر سویشان‌‌ 2950

Behold their bones and their hair! Take warning, and drive not your ass towards them!

گردن خر گیر و سوی راه کش ** سوی ره‌‌بانان و ره دانان خوش‌‌

Seize the neck of your ass (the flesh) and lead him towards the Way, towards the good keepers and knowers of the Way.