Psalms of the Brethren CLXXXVIII: Sabhiya

People can never really understand
That we are here but for a little spell.
But they who grasp this truth indeed,
Suffer all strife and quarrels to abate.

And whereas they who cannot understand,
Deport themselves as they immortals were,
They who can really understand the Norm
Are as the hale amid a world diseased.

All flaccid action, all corrupted rites,
All mischief-making in religious life:
On all such work follows no high reward.

He who among his fellow-brethren wins
No reverence is far from the good Norm,
As is the firmament far from the earth.