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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.
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این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی
- Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.
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آن چه معشوق است صورت نیست آن ** خواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان
- That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.
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آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشتهای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشتهای
- That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?
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صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست 705
- Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is.