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من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن ** من ببینم روی تو تو روی من
- O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality), I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.
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آن کسی که او ببیند روی خویش ** نور او از نور خلقان است بیش
- He that beholds his own face (reality)—his light is greater than the light of the creatures (of God).
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گر بمیرد دید او باقی بود ** ز انکه دیدش دید خلاقی بود 885
- Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator.
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نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
- That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.
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گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو
- The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,
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تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی
- That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”
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گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاش ** گر چه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجهتاش
- He replied, “O King, I will tell his faults, though he is to me a pleasing fellow-servant.
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عیب او مهر و وفا و مردمی ** عیب او صدق و ذکا و هم دمی 890
- His faults are affection and loyalty and humanity; his faults are sincerity and keen wittedness and cordial comradeship.
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کمترین عیبش جوانمردی و داد ** آن جوانمردی که جان را هم بداد
- His least fault is generosity and bounty—the generosity that even gives up life.”
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صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدید ** چه جوانمردی بود کان را ندید
- God has brought to view myriads of lives (in return for the life given up): what generosity would there be (in him) that saw not those?