ور شوم نومید نومیدی من ** عین صنع آفتاب است ای حسن
And if I become despairing, my despair is the objective manifestation of the Sun's work, O goodly (friend).
عین صنع از نفس صانع چون برد ** هیچ هست از غیر هستی چون چرد1115
How should the objective manifestation of the work be cut off from the very self of the Worker? How should any object of (contingent) being pasture on (derive existence from) aught but (Absolute) Being?
جمله هستیها از این روضه چرند ** گر براق و تازیان ور خود خرند
All (contingent) beings pasture on this Meadow, whether they be Buráq or Arab horses or even asses;
و انکه گردشها از آن دریا ندید ** هر دم آرد رو به صحرایی جدید
And he that has not regarded (all) becomings (movements and changes) as (proceeding) from that Sea, at every instant turns his face towards a new point of orientation.
او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد ** تا که آب شور او را کور کرد
He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.
بحر میگوید به دست راست خور ** ز آب من ای کور تا یابی بصر
The Sea is saying, “Drink of my water with the right hand, O blind one, that thou mayst gain sight.”
هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست1120
Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are.
نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست میگردی گهی گاهی دو تو
O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.
ما ز عشق شمس دین بیناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم
Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.
هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود
Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;