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گفت اگر کشتم بتو چون آمدم ** چون به پای خود درین خون آمدم
- He replied, “If I have killed him, how have I come to thee? How have I come with my own feet into this blood?”
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کو غلام من بگفت اینک منم ** کرد دست فضل یزدان روشنم
- (He asked again), “Where is my slave?” He (the slave) said, “Lo, I am (he): the hand of God's grace hath made me resplendent.”
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هی چه می‌گویی غلام من کجاست ** هین نخواهی رست از من جز براست 3185
- “Eh, what art thou saying? Where is my slave? Hark, thou wilt not escape from me except by (telling) the truth.”
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گفت اسرار ترا با آن غلام ** جمله وا گویم یکایک من تمام
- He (the slave) said, “I will relate all thy secret dealings with that slave, one by one;
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زان زمانی که خریدی تو مرا ** تا به اکنون باز گویم ماجرا
- I will relate what has passed (between us) from the time when thou didst purchase me until now,
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تا بدانی که همانم در وجود ** گرچه از شبدیز من صبحی گشود
- That thou mayst know I am the same in (my spiritual) existence, though a (bright) dawn has opened forth from my night-hued (body).
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رنگ دیگر شد ولیکن جان پاک ** فارغ از رنگست و از ارکان و خاک
- The colour is changed; but the pure spirit is free from colour and from the (four) elements and the dust.”
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تن‌شناسان زود ما را گم کنند ** آب‌نوشان ترک مشک و خم کنند 3190
- They that know the body (alone) soon lose us; (but) they that quaff the (spiritual) water abandon the (bodily) water-skin and jar.
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جان‌شناسان از عددها فارغ‌اند ** غرقه‌ی دریای بی‌چونند و چند
- They that know the spirit are free from numbers (plurality): they are sunk in the Sea that is without quality or quantity.
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جان شو و از راه جان جان را شناس ** یار بینش شو نه فرزند قیاس
- Become spirit and know spirit by means of spirit: become the friend of vision (clairvoyant), not the child of ratiocination.