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  • صد دریغ و درد کاین عاریتی ** امتان را دور کرد از امتی‌‌
  • ’Tis a hundred pities and griefs that this borrowed (unreal) state (of self-assertion) has put the religious communities far from religious communion.
  • من غلام آن که او در هر رباط ** خویش را واصل نداند بر سماط
  • I am the (devoted) slave of him who does not regard himself in every caravanseray (at every stage in his spiritual progress) as having attained to (the privilege of sitting at) the table (of union with God).
  • بس رباطی که بباید ترک کرد ** تا به مسکن در رسد یک روز مرد 3260
  • Many is the caravanseray that must be quitted, in order that one day the man may reach home.
  • گر چه آهن سرخ شد او سرخ نیست ** پرتو عاریت آتش زنی است‌‌
  • Though the iron has become red, it is not red (by nature): it (the redness) is a ray borrowed from something that strikes fire.
  • گر شود پر نور روزن یا سرا ** تو مدان روشن مگر خورشید را
  • If the window or the house is full of light, do not deem aught luminous except the sun.
  • هر در و دیوار گوید روشنم ** پرتو غیری ندارم این منم‌‌
  • Every door and wall says, “I am luminous: I do not hold the rays of another, I (myself) am this (light).”
  • پس بگوید آفتاب ای نارشید ** چون که من غارب شوم آید پدید
  • Then the sun says, “O thou who art not right (in thy belief), when I set ’twill become evident (thou wilt see what the truth is).”
  • سبزه‌‌ها گویند ما سبز از خودیم ** شاد و خندانیم و بس زیبا خدیم‌‌ 3265
  • The plants say, “We are green of ourselves, we are gay and smiling (blooming) and we have very beauteous cheeks.”
  • فصل تابستان بگوید ای امم ** خویش را بینید چون من بگذرم‌‌
  • The season of summer says (to them), “O peoples, behold yourselves when I depart!”
  • تن همی‌‌نازد به خوبی و جمال ** روح پنهان کرده فر و پر و بال‌‌
  • The body is boasting of its beauty and comeliness, (while) the spirit, having concealed its glory and pinions and plumes,
  • گویدش ای مزبله تو کیستی ** یک دو روز از پرتو من زیستی‌‌
  • Says to it, “O dunghill, who art thou? Through my beams thou hast come to life for a day or two.
  • غنج و نازت می‌‌نگنجد در جهان ** باش تا که من شوم از تو جهان‌‌
  • Thy coquetry and prideful airs are not contained in the world (go beyond all bounds), (but) wait till I spring up (and escape) from thee!
  • گرم‌‌دارانت ترا گوری کنند ** طعمه‌‌ی موران و مارانت کنند 3270
  • They whose love warmed thee will dig a grave for thee, they will make thee a morsel for ants and reptiles.
  • بینی از گند تو گیرد آن کسی ** کاو به پیش تو همی‌‌مردی بسی‌‌
  • That one who many a time in thy presence was dying (with desire for thee) will hold his nose at thy stench.”
  • پرتو روح است نطق و چشم و گوش ** پرتو آتش بود در آب جوش‌‌
  • The beams of the spirit are speech and eye and ear: the beam (effect) of fire is the bubbling in the water.
  • آن چنان که پرتو جان بر تن است ** پرتو ابدال بر جان من است‌‌
  • As the beam of the spirit falls on the body, so fall the beams of the Abdál on my soul.
  • جان جان چون واکشد پا را ز جان ** جان چنان گردد که بی‌‌جان تن بدان‌‌
  • When the Soul of the soul withdraws from the soul, the soul becomes even as the soulless (lifeless) body. Know (this for sure)!
  • سر از آن رو می‌‌نهم من بر زمین ** تا گواه من بود در روز دین‌‌ 3275
  • For that reason I am laying my head (humbly) on the earth, so that she (the earth) may be my witness on the Day of Judgement.
  • یوم دین که زلزلت زلزالها ** این زمین باشد گواه حالها
  • On the Day of Judgement, when she shall be made to quake mightily, this earth will bear witness to all that passed (in and from us);
  • کاو تحدث جهرة أخبارها ** در سخن آید زمین و خاره‌‌ها
  • For she will plainly declare what she knows: earth and rocks will begin to speak.
  • فلسفی منکر شود در فکر و ظن ** گو برو سر را بر آن دیوار زن‌‌
  • The philosopher, in his (vain) thought and opinion, becomes disbelieving: bid him go and dash his head against that wall!
  • نطق آب و نطق خاک و نطق گل ** هست محسوس حواس اهل دل‌‌
  • The speech of water, the speech of earth, and the speech of mud are apprehended by the senses of them that have hearts (the mystics).
  • فلسفی کاو منکر حنانه است ** از حواس اولیا بیگانه است‌‌ 3280
  • The philosopher who disbelieves in the moaning pillar is a stranger to the senses of the saints.
  • گوید او که پرتو سودای خلق ** بس خیالات آورد در رای خلق‌‌
  • He says that the beam (influence) of melancholia brings many phantasies into people's minds.
  • بلکه عکس آن فساد و کفر او ** این خیال منکری را زد بر او
  • Nay, but the reflexion of his wickedness and infidelity cast this idle fancy of scepticism upon him.