The ascetic firmly girded his loins a hundred times in reliance on God, but in the end, his resolve loosened and unraveled due to a lack of courage.

Here, the poet gently pokes fun at the pious ascetic's outward claims of absolute faith. The imagery plays brilliantly on the idiom of 'girding one's loins'—the ascetic fastens his belt a hundred times in a show of total trust in God (tawakkul), yet his willpower inevitably falters. The beauty lies in the phrase 'khul gayi', which carries a witty double meaning: not only does his belt untie and slip loose, but the secret of his feeble resolve is also laid bare for all to see.