A theologian said to his father: None of the beautiful and sweet words of the speakers have any effect on me, because I don't see their actions matching their words.

They teach people to renounce the world

But they themselves accumulate silver and grain

A scholar who only talks and nothing more

Whatever he says, no one takes it to heart

A scholar is one who does no evil

Nor says anything to people, and does not do it himself

Do you enjoin righteousness upon the people and forget yourselves?

A scholar who indulges in luxury and self-indulgence

He is lost himself, who can he guide?

The father said: Oh son, it is not right to turn away from the guidance of the advisors just because of a false idea, and to attribute error to the scholars, and to be deprived of the benefits of knowledge in search of a sinless scholar, like a blind person who fell into a well one night and said: Oh, is there a Muslim who can bring a lamp to my path?

A woman heard this and said: You who cannot see the lamp, what will you see with the lamp?

Similarly, a gathering of preaching is like a weaver's workshop; there, you won't get any goods unless you pay cash, and here, you won't achieve happiness unless you bring devotion.

Listen to the words of the scholar with the ear of the soul

Even if his actions do not match his words

What the claimant says is false:

‘How can one awaken the sleeping?’

A man must take heed

Even if the advice is written on the wall

A man of heart came to the school from the monastery

He broke the covenant of companionship with the people of the path

I asked: What is the difference between a scholar and a worshipper?

Until you chose this group over that one?

He said: That one takes his own rug out of the wave

And this one strives to save the drowning