- He rent them to pieces, but from their anxiety (for their master) not one slave betrayed the Khwája's secret.
- پاره پاره کردشان و یک غلام ** راز خواجه وا نگفت از اهتمام
- A voice from Heaven said to him (the dervish) in his dream, ‘O sir, do thou also learn how to be a slave, and (then) come (to Me).’
- گفتش اندر خواب هاتف کای کیا ** بنده بودن هم بیاموز و بیا
- O you who have torn the coats of the (spiritual) Josephs, know that it is your own fault if the wolf tear you. 3180
- ای دریده پوستین یوسفان ** گر بدرد گرگت آن از خویش دان
- Wear, all the year round, (a garment) of that (cloth) which you are weaving; eat and drink, all the year round, of that (crop) which you are sowing.
- زانک می‌بافی همه‌ساله بپوش ** زانک می‌کاری همه ساله بنوش
- These continual pangs (which you are suffering) are (the effect of) your own action: this is the meaning of ‘the Pen has dried,’
- فعل تست این غصه‌های دم به دم ** این بود معنی قد جف القلم
- (Namely, that God says), ‘My Law (Sunna) does not turn aside from rectitude: good shall befall the good, evil the evil.’
- که نگردد سنت ما از رشد ** نیک را نیکی بود بد راست بد
- Beware, do (good) works, for Solomon is alive: so long as you are a devil, his sword is cutting;
- کار کن هین که سلیمان زنده است ** تا تو دیوی تیغ او برنده است
- When he (the devil) becomes an angel, he is safe from the sword and has no dread of Solomon. 3185
- چون فرشته گشته از تیغ آمنیست ** از سلیمان هیچ او را خوف نیست
- His (Solomon's) sway is over the devil, not (over) the angel: pain is on the earth, not above the sky.
- حکم او بر دیو باشد نه ملک ** رنج در خاکست نه فوق فلک
- Abandon this Necessitarianism, which is very empty (of good), in order that you may know what is the inmost secret of Necessity.
- ترک کن این جبر را که بس تهیست ** تا بدانی سر سر جبر چیست