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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?

  • 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.

  • آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست‏
  • If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).

  • چون وفا آن عشق افزون می‏کند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون می‏کند
  • Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?

  • پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت‏
  • The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.

  • بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم‏
  • Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.

  • ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش‏ 710
  • You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form,

  • پرتو عقل است آن بر حس تو ** عاریت میدان ذهب بر مس تو
  • That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.

  • چون زر اندود است خوبی در بشر ** ور نه چون شد شاهد تو پیر خر
  • Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?

  • چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد ** کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد
  • She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.