با نماز او بیالوده ست خون ** ذکر تو آلوده‏ی تشبیه و چون‏

Her prayers are stained with blood; your praise is stained with assimilation and qualification.

خون پلید است و به آبی می‏رود ** لیک باطن را نجاستها بود

Blood is foul, and (yet) it goes (is washed away) by a (little) water; but the inward part (the inner man) hath impurities

کان به غیر آب لطف کردگار ** کم نگردد از درون مرد کار 1800

Which fail not (are not removed) from the interior (the heart) of the man of works except by the water of the grace of the Maker.

در سجودت کاش رو گردانی‏ای ** معنی سبحان ربی دانی‏ای‏

Would that in your bowing low in prayer you would turn your face (to attentive consideration) and apprehend the meaning of “Glory to my Lord!”

کای سجودم چون وجودم ناسزا ** مر بدی را تو نکویی ده جزا

Saying, “Oh, my prostration (in prayer), like my existence, is unworthy (of Thee): do Thou give good in return for evil!”

این زمین از حلم حق دارد اثر ** تا نجاست برد و گلها داد بر

This earth has the mark of God's clemency, in that it got filth and gave flowers as the produce;

تا بپوشد او پلیدیهای ما ** در عوض بر روید از وی غنچه‏ها

In that it covers our pollutions, (and that) buds grow up from it in exchange.

پس چو کافر دید کاو در داد و جود ** کمتر و بی‏مایه تر از خاک بود 1805

Therefore, when the infidel saw that in giving and lavishing he was meaner and unwealthier than the earth,

از وجود او گل و میوه نرست ** جز فساد جمله پاکیها نجست‏

(That) flowers and fruit did not grow from his being, (and that) he sought (and achieved) nothing but the corruption of all purities,

گفت واپس رفته‏ام من در ذهاب ** حسرتا یا لیتنی کنت تراب‏

He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!