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هم دعا از تو اجابت هم ز تو ** ایمنی از تو مهابت هم ز تو
- From Thee (come) both the prayer and the answer; from Thee safety, from Thee also dread.
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گر خطا گفتیم اصلاحش تو کن ** مصلحی تو ای تو سلطان سخن
- If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.
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کیمیا داری که تبدیلش کنی ** گر چه جوی خون بود نیلش کنی
- Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.
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این چنین میناگریها کار تست ** این چنین اکسیرها اسرار تست 695
- Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets.
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آب را و خاک را بر هم زدی ** ز آب و گل نقش تن آدم زدی
- Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.
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نسبتش دادی و جفت و خال و عم ** با هزار اندیشه و شادی و غم
- Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.
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باز بعضی را رهایی دادهای ** زین غم و شادی جدایی دادهای
- Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;
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بردهای از خویش و پیوند و سرشت ** کردهای در چشم او هر خوب زشت
- Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.
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هر چه محسوس است او رد میکند ** و انچه ناپیداست مسند میکند 700
- He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible.
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عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنهی او در جهان
- His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.