In the name of the Lord of both wisdom and mind

To nothing sublimer can thought way find

I heard that one dawn of Eid

Bayazid came out of the bathhouse

Someone unknowingly poured a basin of ashes on him

From a house, they poured it on his head

With disheveled turban and hair, he said

Rubbing his face with gratitude

O my soul, I am worthy of fire

Shall I frown upon ashes?

The great ones did not look at themselves

Do not seek God-seeing from self-seeing

Greatness is not in reputation and words

Elevation is not in claims and imagination

Humility will raise your head high

Arrogance will throw you to the ground

The rebellious and fierce will be brought down

If you seek height, seek not to be high

Seek not the path of religion from the arrogant of the world

Seek not God-seeing from self-seeing

If you seek status, do not act like the vile

Do not look at others with contempt

Who would think, O wise people

That there is high value in confusion?

Seek no place more famous than this

Where they call creation of good nature

If someone like you brings pride upon you

Would you not see him as great in your own eyes?

If you too are arrogant likewise

You will appear to those arrogant before you

When you stand at a high position

Do not laugh at the fallen if you are wise

Many standing have fallen

And the fallen have taken their place

Suppose you are free from flaws

Do not taunt me, the flawed

One holds the ring of the Kaaba

Another is drunk, fallen in a ruin

If He calls that one, who will prevent it?

If He rejects this one, who will bring it back?

That one is not confident in his deeds

Nor is repentance closed for this one