That semen of yours became a friend (to you) or (like) a (noxious) serpent: why (then) is this astonishment at the rod (of Moses) on your part?3455
یار شد یا مار شد آن آب تو ** زان عصا چونست این اعجاب تو
Does the semen at all resemble that child? Does the sugar-cane at all resemble the candy?
هیچ ماند آب آن فرزند را ** هیچ ماند نیشکر مر قند را
When a man has sown a prostration (in prayer) or a genuflexion, in yonder world his prostration becomes Paradise.
چون سجودی یا رکوعی مرد کشت ** شد در آن عالم سجود او بهشت
When praise of God has flown from his mouth, the Lord of the daybreak fashions it into a bird of Paradise.
چونک پرید از دهانش حمد حق ** مرغ جنت ساختش رب الفلق
Your praise and glorification does not resemble the bird, though the bird's semen is (naught but) wind and air.
حمد و تسبیحت نماند مرغ را ** گرچه نطفه‌ی مرغ بادست و هوا
When altruism and almsgiving have grown up (proceeded) from your hand, (the act of) this (generous) hand becomes on yonder side (in the world hereafter) date-palms and (fresh) herbage.3460
چون ز دستت رست ایثار و زکات ** گشت این دست آن طرف نخل و نبات
The water (semen), (namely) your renunciation, became a river of water in Paradise; your love and affection (for God) is a river of milk in Paradise.
آب صبرت جوی آب خلد شد ** جوی شیر خلد مهر تست و ود
Delight in devotion became a river of honey; behold your (spiritual) intoxication and longing as a river of wine.
ذوق طاعت گشت جوی انگبین ** مستی و شوق تو جوی خمر بین
These causes did not resemble those effects: none knows how He (God) installed it (the effect) in the place of that (cause).
این سببها آن اثرها را نماند ** کس نداند چونش جای آن نشاند
Since these causes were (obedient) to your command, the four rivers (of Paradise) likewise showed obedience to you.
این سببها چون به فرمان تو بود ** چار جو هم مر ترا فرمان نمود