بخش 7 - در بیان آنک این غرور تنها آن هندو را نبود بلک هر آدمیی به چنین غرور مبتلاست در هر مرحله‌ای الا من عصم الله

Since you are attached to those (worldly goods), oh, beware! How often (afterwards) will you sob piteously in repentance!

The names “princehood,” “vizierate,” and “kingship” (are enticing, but) hidden beneath them is death and pain and giving up the ghost.

Be a slave (of God) and walk on the earth like a horse (under the rider), not like a bier which is carried on the necks (of the bearers).

The ungrateful (worldly) man wishes all people to carry him: they bring him, like a dead rider, to the grave.

If you dream of any one (being carried) on a bier, he will become a highstirruped rider of (will rise to high eminence in) office.

Inasmuch as the coffin is a burden on the people (who carry it), these grandees have laid the burden (of their rank and riches) on (the necks of) the people (whom they oppress).

Do not lay your burden on any one, lay it on yourself: do not seek eminence, ’tis best to be poor.

Do not be perpetually riding on the necks of people, lest gout attack your feet.

The vehicle which you will curse in the end, saying, “Thou resemblest a (flourishing) city, but thou art (really) a ruined village”—

Curse it now when it (still) appears to you like a city, in order that (ultimately) you may not have to unload in the wilderness.

Curse it now when you (still) possess a hundred gardens, lest you become unable (to renounce it) and (become) devoted to the wilderness (of worldly fortune).

The Prophet said, “If thou desirest Paradise from God, desire nothing from any one (else).

When thou desirest nothing (from any one), I am thy surety for the Garden of resort and the vision of God.”

Because of this suretyship that Companion (of the Prophet) became so independent (of others) that one day when he had mounted (his horse),

And the whip fell right out of his hand, he himself dismounted and did not ask any one to give it to him.

He (God), from whose gifts no evil cometh, knows (your want) and Himself will give it without any asking.

But if you ask by God's command, that is right: such asking is the way followed by the prophets.

When the Beloved has signified (that you should do so and so), ’tis evil no more: infidelity (itself) becomes faith when the infidelity is for His sake.

Any evil deed prompted by His command surpasses (all) the good deeds in the world.

Even if the skin (exterior) of the oyster-shell be damaged, do not curse it, for within it there are a hundred thousand pearls.

This topic hath no end. Return to the King (God) and become endued with the nature of the falcon.

Like pure gold, return to the mine, in order that your hands may be delivered from (the necessity of) giving the ten (fingers);

(For) when they (worldlings) admit a phenomenal form into their hearts, in the end they curse it in contrition.

The repentance they show is like that of the moth: (soon) forgetfulness draws them back again to the (same) work.

Like the moth, he (such a one) deems the fire (seen) from a distance to be light, and packs off (sets out) towards it.

As soon as he comes (to the fire), it burns his wings, and he flees; and (then) again he falls, like (greedy) children (in a hurry), and spills the salt.

Once more, thinking and hoping to profit, he quickly dashes himself on the fire of that candle.

Once more he is scorched and recoils; (then) again the greed of his heart makes him forgetful and intoxicated.

At the moment when he recoils on being scorched, he gives the ten (fingers), like the Hindú (slave), to the candle,

Saying, “Oh, thy face is splendid as the night-illuming moon, but oh, in (actual) intercourse thou art false and destructive to him that is duped (by thee).”

(Then) again his repentance and moaning go out of his memory, for God hath made the stratagems of the liars to be feeble.