Have you submitted yourself,
O traveler on the path?
If not, then look at what you’ve done
to be so depressed.
Are you still asking, how and why
in your mind?
Then you have taken back the head
you claimed to submit.
Does “I” and “you” still have meaning
for you?
Then you are still alive and never died
to yourself.
Do you still do whatever
you want?
Then you have not cleansed your soul
of the ego’s desire.
Are you still after fame, fortune
and position?
Then you have not given up
both worlds.
Is your self-existence still blocking
your path?
Then you have given your pledge of love
half-heartedly.
O Nurbakhsh, these travelers
who are around you
have not become Sufis, but you indulge them
and count them as such.