پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر

(If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.

آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند 4320

When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs?

بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش

The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.

باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد

Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.

خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو

He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?

خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی

Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.

نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید

At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”

پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت 4325

Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal.

تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک

Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”

تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد

When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,

که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی

“Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.

بی‌نوا گردی ز یاران وابری ** خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری

You will become destitute, you will be cut off from friends, you will be despised, you will feel sorry.”