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حلق بخشد جسم را و روح را ** حلق بخشد بهر هر عضوت جدا
- He bestows a throat on the body and on the spirit; He bestows a separate throat for every part of you.
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این گهی بخشد که اجلالی شوی ** وز دغا و از دغل خالی شوی
- This He bestows at the time when you become Majestical and become void of guile and deceit,
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تا نگویی سر سلطان را به کس ** تا نریزی قند را پیش مگس 20
- So that you will not tell the King's secret to any one nor pour out sugar before flies.
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گوش آنکس نوشد اسرار جلال ** کو چو سوسن صدزبان افتاد و لال
- The secrets of the (Divine) Majesty are drunk in by the ear of that one who, like the lily, hath a hundred tongues and is dumb.
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حلق بخشد خاک را لطف خدا ** تا خورد آب و بروید صد گیا
- The grace of God bestows a throat on the earth, to the end that it may drink water and make a hundred herbs to grow.
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باز خاکی را ببخشد حلق و لب ** تا گیاهش را خورد اندر طلب
- Again, He bestows on the creature of earth (the animal) a throat and lip, in order that it may eat its (the earth's) herbage in desire.
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چون گیاهش خورد حیوان گشت زفت ** گشت حیوان لقمه‌ی انسان و رفت
- When the animal has eaten its herbage, it becomes fat: the animal becomes a mouthful for Man and goes (disappears).
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باز خاک آمد شد اکال بشر ** چون جدا شد از بشر روح و بصر 25
- In turn it becomes earth and becomes a devourer of Man, when the spirit and the sight are separated from Man.
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ذره‌ها دیدم دهانشان جمله باز ** گر بگویم خوردشان گردد دراز
- I beheld the atoms (of created existence) with their mouths all open: if I should tell of their food, it (the tale) would become long.
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برگها را برگ از انعام او ** دایگان را دایه لطف عام او
- Provisions have (their) provision from His bounty; His universal grace is the nourisher of them that nourish.