Even in the gathering of the religious elder, no one asks after the poor; thus, even for the sake of faith, one was compelled to seek worldly wealth.

This couplet is a bittersweet, ironic strike at the hypocrisy hiding inside religious spaces. The poet laments that even in the sacred assembly of the Sheikh—where piety alone should matter—a poor seeker is completely overlooked in favor of the wealthy. The ultimate tragedy is that just to earn respect and preserve one's dignity in faith, one is reluctantly forced to chase the very worldly riches that religion asks us to renounce.