1. O Saad! Indeed Abu Saad's mind
Has come to think of pigeons as naught but vulva

2. And the soul is a subtle thing beyond the grasp
Of reason, though it dwells within a man's frame

3. Glory to your Lord! Does awareness remain with one
Who encounters what he encounters when he sets forth?

4. That is a light which beautifies the bodies it occupies
As you have seen beneath a lamp in the dark of night

5. Some of his circle said it stays with his corpse
Others, that it goes when one encounters the path

6. And there is no soul, once grasped,
That yearns for those left in its perfumed wake

7. And the man most fortunate in this life is one with renunciation
Who forsook it and was called as he climbed the stairs