I-XX

What are the clothes,1 gold2 jewels3 and gems?4
Rows of slaves handsome, and gold waist femme?
Like God they ‘are free’5 from both worlds needs,
Is this not wealth which a skill’d man6 heeds.


1.         Qumash, the clothing.
2.         Nuqra, Silver (I used gold for poetic need).
3.         La’l; a ruby, red jewel=
4.         Guhr; gems.
5.         Are free; Sans souci, unconcerned.
6.         Here skilled man means a godly man, virtuous.