1. He who believes the path to the Exalted is through words, is ignorant, lost, and confused.
The way to God is through His care for those He has chosen and aided.

2. He accepts no truth or dignity except when the grains are reaped in the threshing floor.
Seeking the state demands the condition of one's station. If one claims it, their state exposes them.

3. The poor soul imagines the sciences are between lines written in books.
Far from it! What they put in their books was but little of difficult matters.

4. The people read nothing but their own souls with their Lord. Can this be confined?
So you see the stranger judge them by his opinion to be told "This is from them" and he grows arrogant.

5. His words diminish if he does not speak from his state in what preceded to inform.
The knowledge of the Way is not attained in comfort and measures, so strive that you may attain success.

6. The sciences of the people deluded those not tried by youthfulness and confusion.
Breathe from what hurts, intimacy, and familiar talk that increases and constant discipline that does not cease.

7. Be humble and absorbed in an unseen refuge and delight in unveiled witnessings.
Withdraw at the time of witnessing and zeal if anyone jokingly practices the Sacred Law.

8. Be reverent, tearful, and cling to the Sacred Law unchangingly clinging to God.
This is the people's state in their conditions, not like those who say the Sacred Law forbids then claim the reality opposes what the Sacred Law brought, but they conceal it.

9. Destruction to them for an unbelieving saying! Woe to them on the day Hell blazes!
Or those who witness in contemplations bowing so it is said "This is a worshipper reflecting deeply."

10. These are ostentatious, finding no comfort in themselves except for a little moment fluttering about.
But happier than them is the ignorant when they break their fast.