When that Beniaz opens His Graceful Hand: Why should the niazmand be not proud of his humility. (The words Beniaz and Niazmand are difficult to translate. Literally, they mean ‘the one without need’ and ‘the needy’ respectively. They are attributes of God and Man respectively and are used for them. This verse describes the correct psychology of a real man of God, in that on account of the boundless Grace and Beneficence of God, the man who is a real devotee of Him would be proud of his being the needy one. It is so because it is only in this way that he would deserve the Grace of his Lord. The use of Beniaz and Niazmand in the same verse is a mark of literary elegance.)

You have confined Him to the Arsh, O preacher! What kind of God would keep away from His people? (God is Omni-present and transcends time and space. In that way He is close to His people. See the Holy Quran 2:186 and 50:16 to cite only a few verses on this subject.)

In my view he is not a rind at all, O cup-bearer, who would distinguish between ecstasy and lack of it.* (Rind: A person who has gone so far in the Love of God that he has become ecstatic and is not able to follow the requirements of the Shari‘h. *As long as a person is consciously aware of being or not being ecstatic he is not a rind. He becomes a rind only when he loses this consciousness also.)

Always remain very attentive to the heart, this orchestra is such if broken, it would produce the music of the Secret.

Somebody should ask how it hurts the preacher, if God shows His Grace even to the sinner.

O God! From where does poetry acquire its heat? This is a thing with which even stone would soften.

Nightingale’s lament comes from discrimination between tulip and rose; no one in the world should open the discriminating eye.

The arrogance of piety has taught the preacher to use abusive language to the people of God. (Allusion to and sarcasm on the arrogance of the seemingly pious persons who are so arrogant that they are rude to other people. Really pious people are not rude and are very modest. Modesty is one of the components of piety.)

Such wind should blow from India, O Iqbal which would blow me as dust to Hijaz.