- I am amazed at them, and they too at me: (we are) from one springtime, (but) they are thorns and I am jasmine. 1110
- من ازیشان خیره ایشان هم ز من ** از بهاری خار ایشان من سمن
- I bore to them many a cup of pure wine: its juice turned to stone before this company.
- پیششان بردم بسی جام رحیق ** سنگ شد آبش به پیش این فریق
- I twined a handful of roses and carried it to them: every rose became as a thorn, and the honey turned to poison.
- دسته گل بستم و بردم به پیش ** هر گلی چون خار گشت و نوش نیش
- That (pure wine) is the portion allotted to the selfless: since they are with themselves (not freed from self), how should it be shown (to them)?
- آن نصیب جان بیخویشان بود ** چونک با خویشاند پیدا کی شود
- With us, one must needs be a waking sleeper, that in the state of wakefulness he may dream dreams.”
- خفتهی بیدار باید پیش ما ** تا به بیداری ببیند خوابها
- Thought of created things is an enemy to this sweet (waking) sleep: until his (any one's) thought is asleep, his throat is shut. 1115
- دشمن این خواب خوش شد فکر خلق ** تا نخسپد فکرتش بستست حلق
- A (mystical) bewilderment is needed to sweep (such) thought away: bewilderment devours (all) thought and recollection.
- حیرتی باید که روبد فکر را ** خورده حیرت فکر را و ذکر را
- The more perfect he is in (worldly) science, the more backward he is in reality and the more forward in appearance.
- هر که کاملتر بود او در هنر ** او بمعنی پس بصورت پیشتر
- He (God) hath said, “(Verily, to Him we are) returning”; and the return is in the same wise as a herd turns back and goes home.
- راجعون گفت و رجوع این سان بود ** که گله وا گردد و خانه رود
- When the herd has turned back from (after) going down to water, the goat that was the leader (now) falls behind (becomes the hindmost),
- چونک واگردید گله از ورود ** پس فتد آن بز که پیش آهنگ بود