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جیفة اللیلست و بطال النهار ** هر که او شد غرهی این طبلخوار
- Any one who is duped by this parasite is a carcase by night and a good-for-nothing by day.
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هشتهاند این قوم صد علم و کمال ** مکر و تزویری گرفته کینست حال
- These folk have abandoned a hundred kinds of knowledge and perfection and have embraced a deceit and imposture, saying, ‘This is ecstasy.’
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آل موسی کو دریغا تاکنون ** عابدان عجل را ریزند خون
- Alas, where are the family of Moses that now they might shed the blood of the calf-worshippers
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شرع و تقوی را فکنده سوی پشت ** کو عمر کو امر معروفی درشت 2065
- (Who) have cast religion and piety behind their backs? Where is ‘Umar? Where is a stern command to act righteously?
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کین اباحت زین جماعت فاش شد ** رخصت هر مفسد قلاش شد
- For the licence practised by these people has become notorious: ’tis an indulgence enjoyed by every scoundrelly evil-doer.
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کو ره پیغامبری و اصحاب او ** کو نماز و سبحه و آداب او
- Where is the Way of the Prophet and his Companions? Where are his ritual prayer and rosary and (religious) observances?”
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جواب گفتن مرید و زجر کردن مرید آن طعانه را از کفر و بیهوده گفتن
- How the disciple answered that railing woman and bade her refrain from her unbelief and idle talk.
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بانگ زد بر وی جوان و گفت بس ** روز روشن از کجا آمد عسس
- The youth cried out at her and said, “Enough! In bright daylight where did the night-patrol come from?
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نور مردان مشرق و مغرب گرفت ** اسمانها سجده کردند از شگفت
- The splendour of the (holy) men has overspread the East and the West: the heavens have bowed low in amazement.
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آفتاب حق بر آمد از حمل ** زیر چادر رفت خورشید از خجل 2070
- The Sun of God has risen from (the sign of) the Ram: the (material) sun has gone, shamefaced, under the veil.
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ترهات چون تو ابلیسی مرا ** کی بگرداند ز خاک این سرا
- How should the bletherings of a devil like you turn me back from the dust of this abode?