I try to purify myself
in thought and in deed;
sometimes I come close
often I don't succeed.
The spiritual path
is a path of reformation;
it's a difficult matter
to effect a transmutation.
Human existence is a step
to the angelic domain;
but if I don't rise
on this Earth I will remain.
I must purify myself
in thought and in deed;
that is my sole purpose -
my soul's purpose indeed.

- Khayāl ʿAly