These affairs are delicate; only if you are pleased, do you do them. For I am not pleased with this path of the spiritual retreat (khanqah).
This couplet speaks to a deep conflict between personal desire and prescribed spiritual paths. The poet acknowledges that some matters are too delicate to be dictated, preferring that they remain subject to the beloved's will. He expresses a profound disillusionment with the formal, structured spiritual life—the 'Khanqahi'—suggesting that true realization comes not from dogma, but from genuine, personal connection.
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