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در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن
- He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
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بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود 3820
- I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed.
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این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است
- (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
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خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست
- They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.
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چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست
- Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).
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گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر
- (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.
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چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ 3825
- “Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in!
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اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق
- Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.
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اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر
- Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.
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رسته‌‌ای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو
- Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).