- If you should not see him and return (home) in safety, it will be good (luck) for you: you will not be led astray by him.
- گر نبینیش و سلامت وا روی ** خیر تو باشد نگردی زو غوی
- A braggart, a lick-platter, a parasite: the noise of his drum has reached the remotest parts of the world. 2060
- لافکیشی کاسهلیسی طبلخوار ** بانگ طبلش رفته اطراف دیار
- These folk (who follow him) are (like) Israelites and worshippers of the (golden) calf: why do they fondle such a cow?
- سبطیند این قوم و گوسالهپرست ** در چنین گاوی چه میمالند دست
- Any one who is duped by this parasite is a carcase by night and a good-for-nothing by day.
- جیفة اللیلست و بطال النهار ** هر که او شد غرهی این طبلخوار
- These folk have abandoned a hundred kinds of knowledge and perfection and have embraced a deceit and imposture, saying, ‘This is ecstasy.’
- هشتهاند این قوم صد علم و کمال ** مکر و تزویری گرفته کینست حال
- Alas, where are the family of Moses that now they might shed the blood of the calf-worshippers
- آل موسی کو دریغا تاکنون ** عابدان عجل را ریزند خون
- (Who) have cast religion and piety behind their backs? Where is ‘Umar? Where is a stern command to act righteously? 2065
- شرع و تقوی را فکنده سوی پشت ** کو عمر کو امر معروفی درشت
- For the licence practised by these people has become notorious: ’tis an indulgence enjoyed by every scoundrelly evil-doer.
- کین اباحت زین جماعت فاش شد ** رخصت هر مفسد قلاش شد
- Where is the Way of the Prophet and his Companions? Where are his ritual prayer and rosary and (religious) observances?”
- کو ره پیغامبری و اصحاب او ** کو نماز و سبحه و آداب او
- How the disciple answered that railing woman and bade her refrain from her unbelief and idle talk.
- جواب گفتن مرید و زجر کردن مرید آن طعانه را از کفر و بیهوده گفتن
- The youth cried out at her and said, “Enough! In bright daylight where did the night-patrol come from?
- بانگ زد بر وی جوان و گفت بس ** روز روشن از کجا آمد عسس