Hekayat 46 from Chapter 2 of Golestan of Saadi

A king looked upon a group of dervishes with disdain.

One of them, perceiving this, said: "O King! In this world, we are less than you in power, happier in life, equal in death, and better in the afterlife.

Whether the ruler of a prosperous land

Or a dervish in need of bread

At the moment of death, both will take no more from the world than a shroud

When you leave the kingdom behind

Begging is better than kingship

The outward appearance of a dervish is tattered clothes and unkempt hair, but the reality is a living heart and a dead soul.

Not one who sits at the door of claims from people

And if contradicted, rises to fight

If a millstone rolls down from the mountain

It is not a mystic who rises from the path of the stone

The way of the dervishes is remembrance, gratitude, service, obedience, sacrifice, contentment, monotheism, trust, submission, and endurance.

Whoever is described by these qualities is truly a dervish, even if in a robe,

But a wanderer without prayer, a hedonist, a pleasure-seeker who spends days in lust and nights in the sleep of heedlessness, eating whatever comes and saying whatever comes to mind, is a rogue, even if in a cloak.

O you whose inner self is bare of piety

While outwardly you wear the garment of hypocrisy

Do not leave the seven-colored curtain

When you have a mat in your house."