Do not defile your lips with every kiss and every sweetness

So that it may become drunk and sugar-eating from the lips of the beloved

So that the scent of other lips may not come from your lips

So that love may become pure and clear and unique

That lip that the anus of a donkey was its kissing place

How can it find that sugar-kissing lip of the Messiah?

Know that anything recent is but darkness compared to the ancient light

At that time, there will be a spectacle on the dung heap full of recent things

When the recent fades away in the heart of the garden

It is freed from recentness and becomes a flavor enhancer

As long as you are recent, what do you know of the pleasure of holiness?

Go from recentness towards the Blessed and Exalted One

From that hand of the Messiah came the medicine of the world

Who kept his hand away from every cup of dregs

From the bounty of Pharaoh, what did Moses wash his hands and lips?

The sea of generosity gave him the shining hand

If you want to escape from every raw thing of the stomach and lips

Be full of pearls and bitter-faced like the sea

Beware, close your eyes, for that is a jealous eye

Beware, keep your stomach empty, for the sweetmeat is prepared

A satiated dog will not catch any prey

For it is from the fire of hunger that steps and paces are in demand

Where is the pure hand and lip that will take the pure cup?

Where is the nimble Sufi who will come towards the sweetmeat?

Show from these words images of truths

O Thou who dividest the coffee and the cup upon us