If your soul cannot live without the body, who provides your sustenance in the sky?
In explaining the harshness of the world's sweetness and richness, and how it prevents one from God's nourishment, as it is said that hunger is God's food that revives the bodies of the truthful. In hunger is God's food, and as it is said, "I spend the night with my Lord, who feeds and gives me drink," and "they are provided with joy."
Free yourself from this coarse and meager sustenance, and seek noble food and strength.
Even if you eat thousands of pounds of food, you will become pure and light like a feather.
It will not imprison you with wind and colic, nor will it nail your stomach with iron.
If you eat little, you will remain hungry like a crow, but if you eat too much, your burps will fill your head.
Eating little leads to bad temper, dryness, and melancholy, while overeating makes the body prone to indigestion.
From God's food and delightful nourishment, ride on such a sea like a ship.
Be patient and persistent in fasting, waiting moment by moment for God's sustenance.
For that good and patient God gives gifts in anticipation.
If you are not waiting, it will not come to you, that morsel of seventy fortunes.
Oh father, wait, wait for the noble feast above.
Every hungry person eventually finds sustenance, and the sun of fortune shines upon them.
A guest with ambition, when eating little from the dish, the host brings better food.
Except for the stingy host, do not have bad thoughts about the generous provider.
Rise like a mountain, oh pillar, so that the first light of the sun shines upon you.
For that high mountain peak awaits the morning sun.