This poem discusses themes of spirituality, faith, and identity. It contrasts Western secularism with Islamic faith, questioning why some Muslims have lost touch with their religious roots. It also touches on ideas of self-discovery, embracing one's true nature, and finding illumination through faith rather than worldly concerns. The poem ends by encouraging exposing one's true self by sometimes rising up from mainstream thought and diving deep into one's spiritual core.

5. Upset this world of morn and eve,
Of these wetlands, of those dry leave.
May your Godhead remain free of blemish all
In my insipid prostrations do not believe!

6. My poor estate makes proud men covetous,
Poverty such as mine ennobles us.
Beware those other rags and begging‐bowls
That make the Muslim pusillanimous!

7. Rescue me please from wisdom’s narrowness
And from excessive light, its plentifulness.
It deigns to cast looks at others, that is,
The eye of Muslims’ shamelessness!

8. Iqbal said to the Shaykh of the Ka'bah:
'Who went to sleep under the very arch in the mosque?'
A voice sounded from the walls of the mosque:
'Who became lost in the idol‐house of the West?'

9. The old flame of desires has grown cold
As the Muslims’ veins hot‐blood no longer hold.
Greetings to the idols for my secularism
For flame of Allah Hoo’s cheers is dead, behold!

10. The talk of Muslim is interesting,
His heart warm, breath light and gaze arresting.
O who can catch a glimpse of him, for he
Though the very soul of company, is by himself resting!

11. The clairvoyance of the zephyr
Is apparent from its discrimination between flowers and thorns!
A flower cannot be guarded
If the thorn has the nature of silk.

12. Of love and losing what words need be said?
The self’s unfolding is Life’s fountain‐head;
There’s neither loss to ocean nor to pearl
In the pearl’s loosening from the ocean’s bed.

13. Why is there no storm in your sea?
Why is your Khudi not Muslim?
It is pointless to complain of God’s decree –
Why are you not God’s decree?

14. If with the heart’s eye the intellect would see aright
This universe is illuminated with Allah’s light.
But if you see through the waxing sun and moon,
It is just the revolution of morn and night.

15. Sometimes by rising from the ocean like a wave,
Occasionally like a diver in its bosom behave.
At times cross beyond the ocean’s shore
To expose better your self’s real enclave.