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صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همی‌رفتیم در دنبال او 600
- The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him
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در بیابانهای پر از خار و گو ** او چو ماه بدر ما را پیش‌رو
- Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.
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روی پس ناکرده می‌گفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ
- Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’
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باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست
- Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’
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روز گشتی پاش را ما پای‌بوس ** گشته و پایش چو پاهای عروس
- Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,
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نه ز خاک و نه ز گل بر وی اثر ** نه از خراش خار و آسیب حجر 605
- No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.”
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مغربی را مشرقی کرده خدای ** کرده مغرب را چو مشرق نورزای
- God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).
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نور این شمس شموسی فارس است ** روز خاص و عام را او حارس است
- The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.
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چون نباشد حارس آن نور مجید ** که هزاران آفتاب آرد پدید
- How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?
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تو به نور او همی رو در امان ** در میان اژدها و کزدمان
- By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.