- This world is the prison, and we are the prisoners: dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out!
- این جهان زندان و ما زندانیان ** حفره کن زندان و خود را وارهان
- What is this world? To be forgetful of God; it is not merchandise and silver and weighing-scales and women.
- چیست دنیا از خدا غافل بدن ** نی قماش و نقره و میزان و زن
- As regards the wealth that you carry for religion's sake, “How good is righteous wealth (for the righteous man)!” as the Prophet recited.
- مال را کز بهر دین باشی حمول ** نعم مال صالح خواندش رسول
- Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, (but) water underneath the boat is a support. 985
- آب در کشتی هلاک کشتی است ** آب اندر زیر کشتی پشتی است
- Since he cast out from his heart (the desire for) wealth and possessions, on that account Solomon did not call himself (by any name) but “poor.”
- چون که مال و ملک را از دل براند ** ز آن سلیمان خویش جز مسکین نخواند
- The stoppered jar, (though) in rough water, floated on the water because of its wind-filled (empty) heart.
- کوزه‌‌ی سر بسته اندر آب زفت ** از دل پر باد فوق آب رفت
- When the wind of poverty is within (any one), he rests at peace on the surface of the water of the world;
- باد درویشی چو در باطن بود ** بر سر آب جهان ساکن بود
- Although the whole of this world is his kingdom, in the eye of his heart the kingdom is nothing.
- گر چه جمله‌‌ی این جهان ملک وی است ** ملک در چشم دل او لا شی است
- Therefore stopper and seal the mouth of your heart, and fill it from the Divine ventilator. 990
- پس دهان دل ببند و مهر کن ** پر کنش از باد کبر من لدن
- Exertion is a reality, and medicine and disease are realities: the sceptic in his denial of exertion practised (and thereby affirmed) exertion.
- جهد حق است و دوا حق است و درد ** منکر اندر نفی جهدش جهد کرد
- How the superiority of exertion to trust in God was established.
- مقرر شدن ترجیح جهد بر توکل