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  • ای که جان خیره را رهبر کنی  ** وی که بی‌ره را تو پیغمبر کنی 
  • O Thou who makest the distracted soul to be a Guide, and O Thou who makest the wayless wanderer to be a Prophet,
  • می‌کنی جزو زمین را آسمان  ** می‌فزایی در زمین از اختران  785
  • Thou makest a piece of earth to be heaven, Thou givest increase in the earth from the stars.
  • هر که سازد زین جهان آب حیات  ** زوترش از دیگران آید ممات 
  • Whosoever makes the Water of Life to consist of (the pleasures of) this world, death comes to him sooner than to the others.
  • دیده‌ی دل کو به گردون بنگریست  ** دید که اینجا هر دمی میناگریست 
  • The eye of the heart (the inward eye) that contemplated the (spiritual) firmament perceived that here (in the sensible world) is a continual alchemy.
  • قلب اعیانست و اکسیری محیط  ** ایتلاف خرقه‌ی تن بی‌مخیط 
  • The harmonious cohesion of the patched garment, (which is) the body, without being stitched (together), is (owing to) the transmutation of essences and (to) an all-embracing elixir.
  • تو از آن روزی که در هست آمدی  ** آتشی یا بادی یا خاکی بدی 
  • From the day when thou camest into existence, thou wert fire or air or earth.
  • گر بر آن حالت ترا بودی بقا  ** کی رسیدی مر ترا این ارتقا  790
  • If thou hadst remained in that condition, how should this (present) height have been reached by thee?
  • از مبدل هستی اول نماند  ** هستی بهتر به جای آن نشاند 
  • The Transmuter did not leave thee in thy first (state of) existence: He established a better (state of) existence in the place of that (former one);
  • هم‌چنین تا صد هزاران هستها  ** بعد یکدیگر دوم به ز ابتدا 
  • And so on till (He gave thee) a hundred thousand states of existence, one after the other, the second (always) better than the beginning.
  • از مبدل بین وسایط را بمان  ** کز وسایط دور گردی ز اصل آن 
  • Regard (all change as derived) from the Transmuter, leave (ignore) the intermediaries, for by (regarding) the intermediaries thou wilt be come far from their Origin.