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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.