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  • این قضا بر نیک و بد حاکم بود  ** بر قضا شاهد نه حاکم می‌شود  2885
  • This (Divine) Destiny rules (everything) good and evil: does not the Witness become the ruler of Destiny?
  • شد اسیر آن قضا میر قضا  ** شاد باش ای چشم‌تیز مرتضی 
  • The bondsman of Destiny became the Commander of Destiny: hail to thee, O keen-sighted one who art pleasing (to God)!
  • عارف از معروف بس درخواست کرد  ** کای رقیب ما تو اندر گرم و سرد 
  • The knower made many a petition to the Known, saying, ‘O Thou who watchest over us in heat and cold,
  • ای مشیر ما تو اندر خیر و شر  ** از اشارتهات دل‌مان بی‌خبر 
  • O Thou who givest us intimations in weal and woe, (though) our hearts are unaware of Thy intimations,
  • ای یرانا لانراه روز و شب  ** چشم‌بند ما شده دید سبب 
  • O (Lord) who daily and nightly seest us and whom we see not, (our) regarding the secondary cause (instead of the Causer) has muffled our eyes.
  • چشم من از چشم‌ها بگزیده شد  ** تا که در شب آفتابم دیده شد  2890
  • My eye has been chosen above (all other) eyes, so that the (Divine) Sun was beheld by me in the night (of material existence).
  • لطف معروف تو بود آن ای بهی  ** پس کمال البر فی اتمامه 
  • That was (through) Thy well-known grace, O Beauteous One; and (as the proverb says), ‘The perfection of kindness consists in making it complete.’
  • یا رب اتمم نورنا فی الساهره  ** وانجنا من مفضحات قاهره 
  • O Lord, make our light complete in the plain of Resurrection and deliver us from shameful and overwhelming indignities!
  • یار شب را روز مهجوری مده  ** جان قربت‌دیده را دوری مده 
  • Do not let Thy night-companion be banished (from Thy presence) in the daytime, do not inflict farness (separation) on the soul that has experienced nearness (union).
  • بعد تو مرگیست با درد و نکال  ** خاصه بعدی که بود بعد الوصال 
  • Absence from Thee is a grievous and tormenting death, especially the absence that comes after enjoyment of Thy favour.
  • آنک دیدستت مکن نادیده‌اش  ** آب زن بر سبزه‌ی بالیده‌اش  2895
  • Do not put him that hath seen Thee in the position of one that hath not seen (Thee): sprinkle water on his verdure that has sprung up.
  • من نکردم لا ابالی در روش  ** تو مکن هم لاابالی در خلش 
  • I have not acted recklessly (heedlessly) while faring (on Thy Way): do not Thou either act recklessly (ruthlessly) in pricking (inflicting pain upon me).
  • هین مران از روی خود او را بعید  ** آنک او یک‌باره آن روی تو دید 
  • Oh, do not drive far from Thy face him who once beheld Thy face!
  • دید روی جز تو شد غل گلو  ** کل شیء ما سوی الله باطل 
  • To behold the face of any one but Thee is (like the torture of) an iron collar for the throat: everything except God is vain.
  • باطل‌اند و می‌نمایندم رشد  ** زانک باطل باطلان را می‌کشد 
  • They are vain, but they show me the right way because vanity attracts (only) the vain.
  • ذره ذره کاندرین ارض و سماست  ** جنس خود را هر یکی چون کهرباست  2900
  • Each one of the atoms on atoms which exist in this earth and heaven is like amber (a magnet) for its congener.
  • معده نان را می‌کشد تا مستقر  ** می‌کشد مر آب را تف جگر 
  • The belly attracts bread to its resting-place; the heat of the liver attracts water.
  • چشم جذاب بتان زین کویها  ** مغز جویان از گلستان بویها 
  • The eye is an attractor of beautiful persons from these (different) quarters of the town; the brain (nose) is seeking (to attract) scents from the rose-garden,
  • زانک حس چشم آمد رنگ کش  ** مغز و بینی می‌کشد بوهای خوش 
  • Because the sense peculiar to the eye is an attractor of colour, while the brain and nose attract sweet perfumes.
  • زین کششها ای خدای رازدان  ** تو به جذب لطف خودمان ده امان 
  • O Lord who knowest the secret, do Thou preserve us from these attractions by the attraction of Thy grace!
  • غالبی بر جاذبان ای مشتری  ** شاید ار درماندگان را وا خری  2905
  • Thou, O Purchaser, art dominant over (all) attractors: it would be fitting if Thou redeem the helpless.”
  • رو به شه آورد چون تشنه به ابر  ** آنک بود اندر شب قدر آن بدر 
  • He turned his face to the King as a thirsty man to a cloud— he who on the Night of Power was the Full-moon's own.
  • چون لسان وجان او بود آن او  ** آن او با او بود گستاخ‌گو 
  • Since his tongue and his spirit were His (the King's), (he was not afraid, for) he who is His may converse with Him boldly.
  • گفت ما گشتیم چون جان بند طین  ** آفتاب جان توی در یوم دین 
  • He said, “We have been bound (in chains) like the spirit in its prison of clay: Thou art the Sun (illuminator) of the spirit on the Day of Judgement.
  • وقت آن شد ای شه مکتوم‌سیر  ** کز کرم ریشی بجنبانی به خیر 
  • O King whose course is concealed (from view), the time is come for Thee graciously to make a movement (sign) with Thy beard in clemency.