O manly heart, the goal you seek is hard to gain like gem unique: Get firm resolve and freedom true, if aim of life you wish to woo.

Like Sanjar great and Tughral just to rule and conquer learn you must: Or like a qalandar true and bold the wont and way of monarch hold.

Farabi’s thirst for lore beget, or Rumi’s fever great and fret: You need a thinker’s lofty gaze, or Moses’ passion to amaze.

Learn the wolfish tricks and guile, be like Franks in wit and wile: Else own the passion of God’s Hand, or strike the foes like Tartar band.

Act on Muslim law and rites, or sit in fane like acolytes: Be it the Shrine or temple high, ever like a drunkard cry.

In whatsoever state you be, a fettered thrall or monarch free: No wonder ever can be wrought, with Love, if courage be not fraught.