از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد

Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,

مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون

And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.

جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد

God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.

خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش

He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.

خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند 2685

God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds.

کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی

He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.

صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او

He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.

هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را

For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.

هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را

For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.

خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش 2690

Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.