Favours of the Gracious God — Page 52
52 The malicious among the people declare me a disbeliever; This increases me not, but in rank and superiority. They all have shed their garments of righteousness; Now they are left with nothing except the outward gear of misguidance. I see nothing but turbans and beards, Or such noses which have become crooked due to excessive indulgence in stubborn argumentation. And I observe their anger leaping as if it is the sea; Their waves of misguidance are like the waves of a stormy ocean. The words of the mean are like sharpened lances; Their garments of barking have laid bare [the reality of] their inner-selves.