And through bewilderment he is in restlessness.

Now in this abode is there any one, sweet of spring,

Who will say to me, "Throw away thy staff and enter:

Rejoice in a cheerful welcome and a ready meal?"

Then came forth to me a lad in a tunic, and answered:

Now by the sanctity of the Shaykh who ordained hospitality,

And founded the House of Pilgrimage in the Mother of cities,

We have naught for the night-farer when he visits us

But conversation and a lodging in our hall.

For how should he entertain whom hinders from sleepfulness