When some of the wanderers set their foot on a path, which is unusual, and which confounds the average persons, they straightaway find themselves on the highway to the Beloved. But then it is only the lot of a few out of million persons to know or follow the meanders of this winding way.
Note: The Verse No. 19, Sur Yaman Kalyan is relevant.
جملہ عالم زین سبب گمراہ شد
کم کس ز ابدال حق آگاہ شد
(Roomi)
Most of the mankind went off the track on account of this misunderstanding and very few persons could know the great saints.
Note: In the above four verses the poet has obviously referred to the policy and traditions of the “malamati” sect. These people conceal their devotion and piety, avoid to parade their good deeds and make no effort to hide any thing apparently repugnant. Through ignorance the general public misjudge and reproach them. The ‘malamatis’ draw inspiration from the precedent of Hazrat Ba Yazid Bistámi who, in order to prejudice people against him and thereby make them leave him to himself, took out a bread and ate it during the month of Ramazan. Of course legally he could do it as he was in journey.
According to Hazrat Ali Hajweri, nom de plumed Hazrat Data Ganj Bux of Lahore, ‘malamat’ or public reproach is an ever green garden for the lovers, a recreation - avenue for the friends, an exhileration for the ardent seekers and a pleasant exercise for the followers.

In this unknown region, few been,
Where one loses one's path, Beloved's track is seen,
Of that place few among the many have know edge.

Few have put their foot on the inverse path in the old age,
The path to the beloved where people get baffled,
From amongst millions only some find the extremity of that land.

They kept off the inverse path and heard the unheard,
I have just seen them there.