- The bird said to him, “O Khwája, don't stay in (monastic) seclusion: monasticism is not good in regard to the religion of Ahmad (Mohammed).
- مرغ گفتش خواجه در خلوت مه‌ایست ** دین احمد را ترهب نیک نیست
- The Prophet has forbidden monasticism: how have you embraced a heresy, O trifler?
- از ترهب نهی کردست آن رسول ** بدعتی چون در گرفتی ای فضول
- The conditions (imposed by Islam) are: (to take part in) the Friday worship and the public prayers, to enjoin good and shun evil, 480
- جمعه شرطست و جماعت در نماز ** امر معروف و ز منکر احتراز
- To bear patiently affliction caused by the ill-natured, and to confer benefit on (God's) creatures as (bounteously as) the clouds.
- رنج بدخویان کشیدن زیر صبر ** منفعت دادن به خلقان هم‌چو ابر
- O father, the best of the people is he who benefits the people: if you are not a stone, why are you consorting with the clod?
- خیر ناس آن ینفع الناس ای پدر ** گر نه سنگی چه حریفی با مدر
- Live amongst the community that is the object of (Divine) mercy: do not forsake the religion of Ahmad (Mohammed), be ruled (by his practice).”
- در میان امت مرحوم باش ** سنت احمد مهل محکوم باشد
- He (the fowler) replied, “Any one whose intelligence is infirm, he in the opinion of the intelligent is like a stone and clod.
- گفت عقل هر که را نبود رسوخ ** پیش عاقل او چو سنگست و کلوخ
- One whose (only) wish is for bread resembles an ass: companionship with him is the essence of monkery. 485
- چون حمارست آنک نانش امنیتست ** صحبت او عین رهبانیتست
- (Do not associate with him), for all except God crumbles away, (and) everything that is coming after a time will (inevitably) come.
- زانک غیر حق همه گردد رفات ** کل آت بعد حین فهو آت
- His predicament is the same as that of his qibla (object of desire): call him ‘dead’ inasmuch as he seeks the dead.
- حکم او هم حکم قبله‌ی او بود ** مرده‌اش خوان چونک مرده‌جو بود