Couplet 715-720

چار پارا قدرِ طاقت بارنہ

Put the weight on an animal according his capacity

بر ضعیفاں قدرِ قُوّت کارنہ

Give the task to weak people according their bearing

دانئہ پر مرغ اندازہ ویست

Every bird has its food according to its nature

طُعمئہ ہر مرغ انجیرے کے ست

How can every bird digest fig?

طفل را گرناں دہی بر جائے شیر

If you give chapatti to a child instead of milk

طفلِ مسکیں را ازاں ناں مردہ گیر

You can consider that child indifferent to chapatti

چونکہ دندانہا بر آرد بعد ازاں

When he has get teeth,

خود بخود گردد دلش جویائے ناں

He will seek for chapatti then

مرغ پرنا رُستہ  چوں پرّاں شود

When a bird, who has not yet developed feathers, fly

لقمئہ ہر گربئہ درّاں شود

Will become the food of predators like cat

چوں بر آرد پر بپرّد اُو بخود

He will fly automatically, once he gets feathers

بے تکلّف بے صفیرِ نیک و بد

Even without any signals and without any troubles

                   All this is in words of Maulana, digressing from the story as is his practice. There is an indication of custom to masters in these examples that they should not teach seekers or suggesting some work beyond their capacity. The first example is that an animal should be loaded according to what it could bear. Similarly, the weakened people should be allotted work according their powers. Second example is that each and every bird has its food and diet according its nature and how can the diet of every bird be fig. The third example is that of a child if he be given chapatti instead of milk, then consider that poor fellow dead only. However, when he gets his teeth, then he will automatically seek for chapatti. Fourth example is that if a bird, who has not yet got feathers, tries to fly, he will definitely become the food of any predator like cat. However, when the bird gets its feathers, it will definitely fly around comfortably without any limitations.

                  In the same analogy, when a novice seeker be treated like an accomplished one or he himself likes more weight as indicated in the fourth examples, then he will definitely be finished and destroyed. At the initial stages, he needs the companionship, which is like milk for child. When he starts getting benefits without any help and achieves a status of stability, which is like getting teeth, the removal of companionship does not matter at that stage. Otherwise, he will get trapped in the paws of satan, which is like cats and Allah knows how will he be distracted or digressed because of unawareness of the path of sulook.