With such a gait, when will you reach the station? With such a habit, how will you gain the goal?
You are very heavy of soul and camel-hearted; how will you arrive among the nimble-spirited?
With such grossness how will you be modest? With such a joining [attachment for the world], how will you reach the joiner?
Since there is no opening (readiness) in your head, how will you achieve the solving of the difficult secret?
You are like water left in this clay; so how will you attain the pure from water and clay?
Disregard the sun and moon like Abraham, else how will you attain the perfect sun?
Since you are weak, go, flee to the grace of God, for without the Gracious how will you attain the excellence?
Without the tender care of that sea of loving kindness, how will you reach the shore of such a wave?
Without the Bur¯aq of love and the labor of Gabriel how will you like Muhammad attain all the stages?
You take shelter in those who are without shelter; how will you attain the shelter of the welcoming king?
Before bismill¯ah sacrifice yourself utterly; else, when you lie dead, how will you attain the Name of God?
