How the King (Mahmud) requested Ayáz for the second time, saying, “Explain thy case and solve the difficulty felt by the incredulous and censorious; for it is not (like thy) generosity to leave them in perplexity.”

This topic is beyond limit and measure. “Now, O Ayáz, tell of thy ‘states.’

Thy states’ are from the mine of novelty” how shouldst thou be satisfied with these (vulgar) ‘states’?

Hark, tell the story of those goodly ‘states’- dust (be thrown) upon the ‘states’ and lessons of the five (elements) and the six (directions)!”

If the inward “state” is not to be told, (yet) I will tell thee the outward “state” in a word or two,

(Namely), that by grace of the Beloved the bitternesses of death were made sweeter than sugar-cane to the soul.

If the dust from that sugar-cane should enter the sea, all the bitterness of the sea would become sweet.

Even so a hundred thousand “states” came (hither) and went back to the Unseen, O trusted one.

Each day’s “state” is not like (that of) the day before: (they are passing) as a rive that hath no obstacle in its course.

Each day’s joy is of a different kind, each day’s thought makes a different impression.