LXXXI: What is it, but a sound and healthy…

What is it, but a sound and healthy body,
Which, more than empire and sovereignty, is preferred?

Altho' the world's wealth is an excellent thing,
Glory and renown are, than riches, more precious still.

What are more inestimable than the most perfect thing?
The one, is purity--the other, is sincerity of heart.

What is it that disenthralleth a man from sorrow?
Yea, what is it?--it is contentedness of mind.

Shouldst thou boast thyself of thy godliness,
That godliness, thereby, is rendered bootless and vain.

What is that, which hath a value beyond compute?
Yea, what is it?--it is deliberation in all our affairs.

That, which as a favour and obligation is conferred,
As generosity or liberality, is it ever accounted?

What is that, which, in this world, is a Hell indeed?
Verily, it is the society and acquaintance of a fool.

Then, O Khushhal! guard thou well thy mind;
For if there be aught good, 'tis a mind upright.