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پای ظاهر در صف مسجد صواف ** پای معنی فوق گردون در طواف 3605
- His outward feet stand evenly in the row (of worshippers) in the mosque, while his spiritual feet are (engaged) in circumambulation above the sky.
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جزو جزوش را تو بشمر هم‌چنین ** این درون وقت و آن بیرون حین
- Reckon up every member of him (and judge of it) in like fashion: this (bodily part) is within Time, while that (spiritual part) is beyond Time.
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این که در وقتست باشد تا اجل ** وان دگر یار ابد قرن ازل
- This which is in Time endures till death, while the other is the associate of everlastingness and the peer of eternity.
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هست یک نامش ولی الدولتین ** هست یک نعتش امام القبلتین
- One name of him is “owner of the two empires”; one description of him is “Imám of the two qiblas.”
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خلوت و چله برو لازم نماند ** هیچ غیمی مر ورا غایم نماند
- The religious seclusion and the forty days' fast are no longer incumbent on him: no cloud is overclouding him any more.
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قرص خورشیدست خلوت‌خانه‌اش ** کی حجاب آرد شب بیگانه‌اش 3610
- His solitary cell is (resplendent as) the sun's orb: how should alien night throw a veil over it?
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علت و پرهیز شد بحران نماند ** کفر او ایمان شد و کفران نماند
- Sickness and abstinence are gone, the crisis is past: his infidelity has become faith, and disbelief is no more.
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چون الف از استقامت شد به پیش ** او ندارد هیچ از اوصاف خویش
- Like (the letter) alif, he has taken the foremost place because of his straightness (rectitude): he retains nothing of his own qualities.
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گشت فرد از کسوه‌ی خوهای خویش ** شد برهنه جان به جان‌افزای خویش
- He has become separated from the garment of his own dispositions: his spirit has gone, naked, to Him who gives it increase of spirituality.
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چون برهنه رفت پیش شاه فرد ** شاهش از اوصاف قدسی جامه کرد
- Inasmuch as it went naked into the presence of the incomparable King, the King made for it a raiment of holy qualities.