High and low will get pieces of bread and dainty morsels and viands in the midst of the street.3345
پارههای نان و لالنگ و طعام ** در میان کوی یابد خاص و عام
(The flesh of) the sacrificed cow and thin loaves of bread will be scattered quickly over the dogs and the beggars.”
گاو قربانی و نانهای تنک ** بر سگان و سایلان ریزد سبک
The death of the horse and mule and the death of the slave were bringing round the doom of this foolish deluded man.
مرگ اسپ و استر و مرگ غلام ** بد قضا گردان این مغرور خام
He fled (escaped) from the loss of wealth and from grief thereat: he increased his wealth and shed his own blood.
از زیان مال و درد آن گریخت ** مال افزون کرد و خون خویش ریخت
These austerities of dervishes—what are they for? (The reason is) that that tribulation (imposed) on the body is (in effect) the everlasting life of spirits.
این ریاضتهای درویشان چراست ** کان بلا بر تن بقای جانهاست
Unless a (mystic) traveller gains the everlasting life of his (spiritual) self, how should he make his body a sick and perishing (thing)?3350
تا بقای خود نیابد سالکی ** چون کند تن را سقیم و هالکی
How should he move his hand to (acts of) altruism and (devotional) work unless he sees (the salvation of) his soul in exchange for what is given (by him)?
دست کی جنبد به ایثار و عمل ** تا نبیند داده را جانش بدل
That one who gives without expectation of (any) gains—that one is God, is God, is God,
آنک بدهد بی امید سودها ** آن خدایست آن خدایست آن خدا
Or the friend of God (the saint), who has assumed the nature of God and has become luminous and has received the Absolute Radiance;
یا ولی حق که خوی حق گرفت ** نور گشت و تابش مطلق گرفت
For He is rich, while all except Him are poor: how should a poor man say “Take” without compensation?
کو غنی است و جز او جمله فقیر ** کی فقیری بی عوض گوید که گیر