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این چنین آمد ز اصل آن خوی او ** نه ریاضت نه بجست و جوی او
- That disposition of his is like this originally: it is not (acquired by) discipline or by his effort and endeavour.
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آنگهان خندد که او بیند رضا ** همچو حلوای شکر او را قضا
- He laughs at the moment when he sees (the Divine) pleasure: to him Destiny is even as sugared sweetmeat.”
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بنده‌ای کش خوی و خلقت این بود ** نه جهان بر امر و فرمانش رود 1915
- The servant (of God) whose disposition and character is (like) this—does not the world move according to his command and behest?
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پس چرا لابه کند او یا دعا ** که بگردان ای خداوند این قضا
- Then why should he make entreaty and cry in prayer, “O God, avert this destiny”?
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مرگ او و مرگ فرزندان او ** بهر حق پیشش چو حلوا در گلو
- For God's sake his (own) death and the death of his children is to him like sweetmeat in the gullet.
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نزع فرزندان بر آن باوفا ** چون قطایف پیش شیخ بی‌نوا
- To that loyal one the death-agony of his children is like honey-cakes to a destitute old man.
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پس چراگوید دعا الا مگر ** در دعا بیند رضای دادگر
- Why, then, should he invoke (God), unless perchance he see the pleasure of the (Divine) Judge in (such) invocation?
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آن شفاعت و آن دعا نه از رحم خود ** می‌کند آن بنده‌ی صاحب رشد 1920
- That righteous servant does not make that intercession and invocation from his own mercifulness.
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رحم خود را او همان دم سوختست ** که چراغ عشق حق افروختست
- He has burned up (consumed away) his own mercifulness at the moment when he has lighted the lamp of love of God.
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دوزخ اوصاف او عشقست و او ** سوخت مر اوصاف خود را مو بمو
- Love is the Hell-fire of his attributes, and it has burnt up the attributes of self, hair by hair.