Heart, since you have become understanding of the mysteries, you have become useless for all other employments.
Be still mad and insane; why have you come to your senses and recovered your wits?
Meditation is all for the sake of acquiring; you have become entirely giving.
Preserve that same order of Majn¯un, for you have become indifferent to all orderings.
If you desired to be veiled and prudent, why did you go about drunk in the market?
To sit in a corner yields you no profit once you have become the friend of the dissolutes of this path.
Go forth into the desert, that same desert where you were; you have wandered long enough in these ruins.
There is a tavern in your neighborhood, from the scent of its wine you have become intoxicated;
Seize this scent and go to the tavern, for you have become nimble-paced as that scent.
Go to the mountain of Q¯af like the Simurgh; why have you become the friend of owl and heron?
Go like a lion into the thicket of reality; why have you become the friend of fox and hyena?
Go not after the scent of the shirt of Joseph, for like Jacob you are in mourning.
