بخش 191 - ملامت کردن اهل مسجد مهمان عاشق را از شب خفتن در آنجا و تهدید کردن مرورا

The people said to him, “Beware! Do not sleep here, lest the Taker of the soul pound thee like the dregs of sesame-grain,

For thou art a stranger and ignorant of the fact that any one who sleeps in this place perishes.

This is not an (accidental) occurrence: we and all those possessed of intelligence have ofttimes witnessed this.

To whomsoever that mosque gave lodging for a single night, poisonous death came to him at midnight.

We have seen this not (only) once but a hundred times: we have not heard it at second-hand from any one.

The Prophet said, ‘The (Mohammedan) religion is (consists in) sincerity (nasíhat)’: that nasíhat etymologically is the opposite of ghulúl (unfaithfulness).

This nasíhat is ‘to be true in friendship’: in an act of ghulúl you are treacherous and currish.

We are showing this sincerity towards thee, without treachery, from (motives of) love: do not turn away from reason and justice!”