How the fault-finders repeated their advice to the guest of the guest-killing mosque.

The Prophet said, “Verily, there is a magic in eloquence”; and that goodly hero spake the truth.

“Hey, do not commit a foolhardy act, (but) depart, O generous man, and do not make the mosque and us suspected on this account;

For an enemy will speak form enmity, and to-morrow the villain will rouse a fire (of suspicion) against us,

Saying, ‘Some wicked man strangled him, (knowing that) on the pretext of the mosque he was safe (from suspicion),

So that he might impute the murder to the mosque and, since the mosque has a bad name, might escape.’

Do not lay any suspicion upon us, O man of valiant spirit, for we are not secure from the craft of (our) enemies.

Come now, depart! Do not be foolhardy, do not cherish vain desire, for it is impossible

to measure (the planet) Saturn by the ell.

Many like thee have prated of (their) luck, (and in the end) they have torn out their beards, one by one, piecemeal.