1. Hearkening to the flute and lute's song
O soul, hear naught but their strings along

2. For it is a covenant's overflow
That waters souls like rain drops sow

3. Should vileness in the souls take root
It sprouts and grows in grief and cark

4. Exhaling from its flowers foul reek
Its fruit is sorrow, drear and dark

5. But if goodness the souls imbue
Their garden blooms fragrant anew

6. From it waft spirits redolent
Sweet amber through the wilds relent

7. So with your reason pierce the veil
And see the truth in details hail

8. Distinguish in this witness meed
From muddied waters your soul lead

9. Who judgement passed in probation
Made clear a divine ordination

10. Whose essence vileness did evince
To warn the vile from vice's prince

11. And they who lawful did proclaim
Are with God's wisdom lit aflame

12. Pointing to guidance, truth undraped
The wholesome mind to ponder shaped

13. The purpose of all in Islam's sight
Is benefit, by wisdom's light

14. Where differings advantage afford
Not to cause harm, God keep that sword

15. So do not think in blindness, man
Another's aims you cannot scan

16. Prolonged your understandings dearth
While his perfection gave him worth

17. On yourself turn measuring glass
Truth in judgements come to pass

18. Guard your tongue from censuring free
Those beyond your mind's narrow sea

19. For God secret in being's fold
Worlds beyond worlds does enfold

20. Most specially human nature's girth
Through time's course gave wisdom birth