آنچنان که از آب آن زنبور شر ** می‌گریزد از تو هم گیرد حذر

آنچنان که از آب آن زنبور شر ** می‌گریزد از تو هم گیرد حذر 440

As the noxious hornet flees from the water, so will it be afraid of (approaching) you.

بعد از آن خواهی تو دور از آب باش ** که بسر هم‌طبع آبی خواجه‌تاش

After that, be far from the water, if you wish; for in your inmost soul you are of the same nature as the water, O fellow-servant.

بس کسانی کز جهان بگذشته‌اند ** لا نیند و در صفات آغشته‌اند

Those persons, then, who have passed from the world are not naught (nonexistent), but they are steeped in the (Divine) Attributes.

در صفات حق صفات جمله‌شان ** هم‌چو اختر پیش آن خور بی‌نشان

All their attributes are (absorbed) in the Attributes of God, even as the star is (left) without trace in the presence of the sun.

گر ز قرآن نقل خواهی ای حرون ** خوان جمیع هم لدینا محضرون

If you demand a citation from the Qur’án, O recalcitrant, recite all of them shall be brought into Our presence.

محضرون معدوم نبود نیک بین ** تا بقای روحها دانی یقین 445

(The person denoted by the word) muhdarún (brought into the presence) is not non-existent (ma‘dúm). Consider (this) well, that you may gain certain knowledge of the everlasting life (baqá) of the spirits.

روح محجوب از بقا بس در عذاب ** روح واصل در بقا پاک از حجاب

The spirit debarred from everlasting life is exceedingly tormented; the spirit united (with God) in everlasting life is free from (every) barrier.

زین چراغ حس حیوان المراد ** گفتمت هان تا نجویی اتحاد

I have told you the purpose of this lamp of animal sense-perception. Beware of seeking to become one (with it in spirit).

روح خود را متصل کن ای فلان ** زود با ارواح قدس سالکان

Make your spirit, O such-and-such, to be united speedily with the holy spirits of the Travellers (on the mystic Way).

صد چراغت ار مرند ار بیستند ** پس جدا اند و یگانه نیستند

Your hundred lamps, then, whether they die (are extinguished) or whether they stand (and burn), are separate (from each other) and are not single.