بخش 209 - بقیهٔ ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش

Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.

He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?

Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.

At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”

Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal.