دفتر پنجم - بخش ۱۷۴ - رسیدن گوهر از دست به دست آخر دور به ایاز و کیاست ایاز و مقلد ناشدن او ایشان را و مغرور ناشدن او به گال و مال دادن شاه و خلعتها و جامگیها افزون کردن و مدح عقل مخطان کردن به مکر و امتحان که کی روا باشد مقلد را مسلمان داشتن مسلمان باشد اما نادر باشد کی مقلد ازین امتحانها به سلامت بیرون آید کی ثبات بینایان ندارد الا من عصم الله زیرا حق یکیست و آن را ضد بسیار غلط‌افکن و مشابه حق مقلد چون آن ضد را نشناسد از آن رو حق را نشناخته باشد اما حق با آن ناشناخت او چو او را به عنایت نگاه دارد آن ناشناخت او را زیان ندارد / Book Five - Section 174 - The pearl passing from hand to hand until the turn finally reaches Ayaz, the sagacity of Ayaz and his not becoming an imitator of them, his not being deceived by the king's gifts of livestock and wealth, and the king's increasing his robes of honor and stipends; and the praise of the intellect of those who err, done through trickery and testing; and when it is proper to consider an imitator a Muslim: he is a Muslim, but it is rare that an imitator emerges safely from these tests, since he does not possess the steadfastness of the seeing ones, except those whom God protects; because Truth is one, and its counterfeits are many and misleading, resembling the truth; since the imitator does not recognize that counterfeit, he has not recognized the Truth from that direction, but if Truth, despite his non-recognition, preserves him with grace, his non-recognition will not harm him.