گفت آن دینار اگر چه اندک است ** لیک موقوف غریو کودک است‏

And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.

تا نگرید کودک حلوا فروش ** بحر رحمت در نمی‏آید به جوش‏

Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”

ای برادر طفل طفل چشم تست ** کام خود موقوف زاری دان درست‏

O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.

گر همی‏خواهی که آن خلعت رسد ** پس بگریان طفل دیده بر جسد

If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.

ترسانیدن شخصی زاهد را که کم گری تا کور نشوی

How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”

زاهدی را گفت یاری در عمل ** کم گری تا چشم را ناید خلل‏ 445

A comrade in the work (of religion) said to an ascetic, “Weep little, lest thine eye come to harm.”

گفت زاهد از دو بیرون نیست حال ** چشم بیند یا نبیند آن جمال‏

The ascetic said, “The case is not outside of (admits only) two (alternatives): the eye will see, or it will not see, that (Divine) Beauty.

گر ببیند نور حق خود چه غم است ** در وصال حق دو دیده چه کم است‏

If it see the Light of God, what is there to grieve about? How little are two eyes (to him that is) in union with God!

ور نخواهد دید حق را گو برو ** این چنین چشم شقی گو کور شو

And if it shall not see God, let it go! Let such a miserable eye become blind!”

غم مخور از دیده کان عیسی تراست ** چپ مرو تا بخشدت دو چشم راست‏

Do not grieve for your eye when that Jesus is yours; do not go to the left (but to the right), that he may give you two right (sound) eyes.

عیسی روح تو با تو حاضر است ** نصرت از وی خواه کاو خوش ناصر است‏ 450

The Jesus of your spirit is present with you: beg aid from him, for he is a goodly aider;