«فَكَمْ حَالِمٍ سَرَّهُ حُلْمُهُ وَأَدْرَكَهُ الرَّوْعُ لَمَّا انْتَبَهْ»
How many dreamers delighted in their dream, only to be seized by fear upon waking.
Ḥālim / ḥulm share the root for dreaming; rawʿ is fear, and intabaha means to awaken or become alert. The contrast of dream and awakening completes the warning against seductive appearances.
This closes the sixth maqāmah. A story that began with a test of dazzling composition ends with its accomplished speaker choosing independence and warning his companion against the glamour of office.