- I have tried it: my death is (consists) in life: when I escape from this life, ’tis to endure for ever.
- آزمودم مرگ من در زندگیست ** چون رهم زین زندگی پایندگیست
- “Kill me, kill me, O trusty friends! Lo, in my being killed is life on life.”
- اقتلونی اقتلونی یا ثقات ** ان فی قتلی حیاتا فی حیات
- O Thou that makest the cheek radiant, O Spirit of everlastingness, draw my spirit to Thyself and generously bestow on me the meeting (with Thee). 3840
- یا منیر الخد یا روح البقا ** اجتذب روحی وجد لی باللقا
- I have a Beloved whose love roasts the bowels (of my heart): if He wished to walk upon mine eye, He would walk (upon it, and be welcome).
- لی حبیب حبه یشوی الحشا ** لو یشا یمشی علی عینی مشی
- Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter: Love indeed hath a hundred other tongues (besides these two).
- پارسی گو گرچه تازی خوشترست ** عشق را خود صد زبان دیگرست
- When the scent of that Charmer of hearts begins to fly (abroad), all those tongues become dumbfounded.
- بوی آن دلبر چو پران می‌شود ** آن زبانها جمله حیران می‌شود
- I will cease (from speech): the Sweetheart has begun to speak, be (all) ear—and God best knoweth the right course.
- بس کنم دلبر در آمد در خطاب ** گوش شو والله اعلم بالصواب
- Since the lover has repented, now beware (of misapprehension), for he will lecture, like the adepts (in mystical love), on the gallows. 3845
- چونک عاشق توبه کرد اکنون بترس ** کو چو عیاران کند بر دار درس
- Although this lover is going to Bukhárá, he is not going to (attend) lectures or to (learn from) a teacher.
- گرچه این عاشق بخارا می‌رود ** نه به درس و نه به استا می‌رود
- For lovers, the (only) lecturer is the beauty of the Beloved, their (only) book and lecture and lesson is His face.
- عاشقان را شد مدرس حسن دوست ** دفتر و درس و سبقشان روی اوست