- As for your saying, ‘There is nobody in this house and palace: why art thou beating this drum?’—
- آنچ گفتی کاندرین خانه و سرا ** نیست کس چون می‌زنی این طبل را
- (I reply that) this (Moslem) people are giving (large) sums of gold for God's sake, founding hundreds of pious institutions and mosques,
- بهر حق این خلق زرها می‌دهند ** صد اساس خیر و مسجد می‌نهند
- And, like intoxicated lovers, gladly risking their property and lives on their way to (perform) the distant Pilgrimage:
- مال و تن در راه حج دوردست ** خوش همی‌بازند چون عشاق مست
- Do they ever say, ‘The House (Ka‘ba) is empty’? Nay, (they know that) the Lord of the House is the Spirit invisible.
- هیچ می‌گویند کان خانه تهیست ** بلک صاحب‌خانه جان مختبیست
- He that is illumined by the Light of God deems the House of the Beloved to be full (of Him). 865
- پر همی‌بیند سرای دوست را ** آنک از نور الهستش ضیا
- In the eyes of those who see the end, many a palace filled with a crowd and throng (of people) is empty.
- بس سرای پر ز جمع و انبهی ** پیش چشم عاقبت‌بینان تهی
- Seek in the (spiritual) Ka‘ba whomsoever you please, that he may at once grow (rise into view) before your face.
- هر که را خواهی تو در کعبه بجو ** تا بروید در زمان او پیش رو
- How should the form (of the Perfect Man), which is splendid and sublime, (ever) be absent from the House of God?
- صورتی کو فاخر و عالی بود ** او ز بیت الله کی خالی بود
- He is (always) present (there), exempt from exclusion, (while) the rest of mankind (are there only) on account of (their occasional) need.
- او بود حاضر منزه از رتاج ** باقی مردم برای احتیاج
- Do they (the pilgrims) ever say, ‘We are crying Labbayka without (receiving) any response. Pray, why (is this)’? 870
- هیچ می‌گویند کین لبیکها ** بی‌ندایی می‌کنیم آخر چرا