رفت فکر و روشنایی یافتند ** نحر و بحر آشنایی یافتند
Thought is gone, and they have gained light: they have gained the throat (core and essence) and the sea (ultimate source) of gnosis.
مرگ کاین جمله از او در وحشت‌‌اند ** می‌‌کنند این قوم بر وی ریشخند3495
Death, of which all these (others) are sore afraid, this people (the perfect Súfís) are holding in derision.
کس نیابد بر دل ایشان ظفر ** بر صدف آید ضرر نی بر گهر
None gains the victory over their hearts: the hurt falls on the oyster-shell, not on the pearl.
گر چه نحو و فقه را بگذاشتند ** لیک محو و فقر را برداشتند
Though they have let go grammar (nahw) and jurisprudence (fiqh), yet they have taken up (instead) the (mystical) self-effacement of (spiritual) poverty (faqr).
تا نقوش هشت جنت تافته ست ** لوح دلشان را پذیرا یافته ست
Ever since the forms of the Eight Paradises have shone forth, they have found the tablets of their (the Súfís') hearts receptive.
برترند از عرش و کرسی و خلا ** ساکنان مقعد صدق خدا
They who dwell in God's seat of truth are higher than the Throne and the Footstool and the Void.
پرسیدن پیغامبر علیه السلام مر زید را امروز چونی و چون برخاستی و جواب گفتن او که اصبحت مومنا یا رسول الله
How the Prophet, on whom be peace, asked Zayd, “How art thou to-day and in what state hast thou risen?” and how Zayd answered him, saying, “This morning I am a true believer, O Messenger of Allah.”
گفت پیغمبر صباحی زید را ** کیف اصبحت ای رفیق با صفا3500
One morning the Prophet said to Zayd, “How art thou this morning, O sincere comrade?”
گفت عبدا مومنا باز اوش گفت ** کو نشان از باغ ایمان گر شگفت
He replied, “(This morning I am) a faithful servant of God.” Again he (the Prophet) said to him, “Where is thy token from the garden of Faith, if it has bloomed?”
گفت تشنه بوده‌‌ام من روزها ** شب نخفته ستم ز عشق و سوزها
He said, “I have been athirst in the daytime, at night I have not slept because of love and burning griefs,
تا ز روز و شب گذر کردم چنان ** که از اسپر بگذرد نوک سنان
So that I passed through (and beyond) day and night, as the point of the spear passes through the shield;