می‌رهم زین چارمیخ چارشاخ ** می‌جهم در مسرح جان زین مناخ

(Every night) I escape from this four-branched cross and spring away from this (confined) halting-place into the (spacious) pasture of the spirit.

شیر آن ایام ماضیهای خود ** می‌چشم از دایه‌ی خواب ای صمد

From the nurse, Sleep, I suck the milk of those bygone days of mine, O Lord.

جمله عالم ز اختیار و هست خود ** می‌گریزد در سر سرمست خود

All the (people in the) world are fleeing from their free-will and (self-)existence to their drunken (unconscious) side.

تا دمی از هوشیاری وا رهند ** ننگ خمر و زمر بر خود می‌نهند 225

In order that for awhile they may be delivered from sobriety (consciousness), they lay upon themselves the opprobrium of wine and minstrelsy.

جمله دانسته کای این هستی فخ است ** فکر و ذکر اختیاری دوزخ است

All know that this existence is a snare, that volitional thought and memory are a hell.

می‌گریزند از خودی در بیخودی ** یا به مستی یا به شغل ای مهتدی

They are fleeing from selfhood into selflessness either by means of intoxication or by means of (some engrossing) occupation, O well-conducted man.

نفس را زان نیستی وا می‌کشی ** زانک بی‌فرمان شد اندر بیهشی

Thou (O God) drawest the soul back from that state of not-being because it entered into unconsciousness without Thy command.

لیس للجن و لا للانس ان ** ینفذوا من حبس اقطار الزمن

Neither for the Jinn (genies) nor for mankind is it (possible) to pierce through the prison of the regions of the temporal world.

لا نفوذ الا بسلطان الهدی ** من تجاویف السموات العلی 230

There is no piercing through the cavities of the highest heavens save by the power of Guidance.

لا هدی الا بسلطان یقی ** من حراس الشهب روح المتقی

There is no guidance save by a power that preserves the spirit of the devout from the keepers of the shooting stars.