English
On Despairing of People and Trusting in God
No generous soul is left who might free my troubled heart
from the chains that the turning world has locked around it.
I used to imagine that the one thing I longed for
could be granted to me by the king.
With that hope I went to the successful sultan,
thinking his gifts would set my affairs in order.
But no door opened for me from the king or his minister;
only the Maker can open a hidden door from the unseen.
Obeyd, ask your needs at that door alone, for in His mercy,
if He shuts one door, He opens a thousand more.