- One sign of My punishing him is this, that he has (to his credit) pious acts of fasting and orison
- یک نشان آن که میگیرم و را ** آن که طاعت دارد از صوم و دعا
- And ritual prayer and almsgiving et cetera, but he has not one atom of spiritual savour.
- و ز نماز و از زکات و غیر آن ** لیک یک ذره ندارد ذوق جان
- He performs high acts and deeds of devotion, but he has not one atom of (spiritual) relish.
- میکند طاعات و افعال سنی ** لیک یک ذره ندارد چاشنی
- His devotions are good (in form), but the spirit is not good: the walnuts are many, but there is no kernel therein.” 3395
- طاعتش نغز است و معنی نغز نی ** جوزها بسیار و در وی مغز نی
- Spiritual savour is required, in order that devotions may yield fruit: a kernel is required, in order that the berry may produce a tree.
- ذوق باید تا دهد طاعات بر ** مغز باید تا دهد دانه شجر
- How shall a berry without kernel become a sapling? The soulless form is naught but phantasy.
- دانهی بیمغز کی گردد نهال ** صورت بیجان نباشد جز خیال
- Remainder of the story of the stranger’s reviling the Shaykh.
- بقیهی قصهی طعنه زدن آن مرد بیگانه در شیخ
- That malign wretch was gabbling silly nonsense about the Shaykh: the perverted intellect is always squinting (envious).
- آن خبیث از شیخ میلایید ژاژ ** کژنگر باشد همیشه عقل کاژ
- (He said), “I saw him amidst a company (of revellers): he is one denuded and destitute of piety.
- که منش دیدم میان مجلسی ** او ز تقوی عاری است و مفلسی
- And if you do not believe it, arise (and go) to-night, that you may see plainly your Shaykh’s depravity.” 3400
- ور که باور نیستت خیز امشبان ** تا ببینی فسق شیخت را عیان
- At night he took him to a window and said, “Behold a (fine) debauch and merry-making!
- شب ببردش بر سر یک روزنی ** گفت بنگر فسق و عشرت کردنی