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گوید از جام لطیف‌آشام من ** یار روزم تا نماز شام من
- He says, “I befriend the day with (my) delicious cup until the evening-prayer.
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چون بیاید شام و دزدد جام من ** گویمش وا ده که نامد شام من 4740
- When evening comes and steals my cup, I will say to it, ‘Give (it) back, for my evening hath not come.’”
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زان عرب بنهاد نام می مدام ** زانک سیری نیست می‌خور را مدام
- Hence the Arabs applied the name mudám to wine, because the wine-drinker is never sated.
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عشق جوشد باده‌ی تحقیق را ** او بود ساقی نهان صدیق را
- Love makes the wine of realisation to bubble: He is the cup-bearer to the siddíq (true lover) in secret.
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چون بجویی تو بتوفیق حسن ** باده آب جان بود ابریق تن
- When you seek (the reality) with good help (from God), the water (essence) of the spirit is the wine, and the body is the flagon.
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چون بیفزاید می توفیق را ** قوت می بشکند ابریق را
- When He increases the wine of His help, the potency of the wine bursts the flagon.
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آب گردد ساقی و هم مست آب ** چون مگو والله اعلم بالصواب 4745
- The water (the spirit) becomes the Cup-bearer, and the water (is) also the drunken man. Tell not how! And Go best knoweth the right.
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پرتو ساقیست کاندر شیره رفت ** شیره بر جوشید و رقصان گشت و زفت
- ‘Tis the radiance of the Cup-bearer that entered into the must: the must bubbled up and began to dance and waxed strong.
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اندرین معنی بپرس آن خیره را ** که چنین کی دیده بودی شیره را
- On this matter, ask the heedless (sceptic), “When did you (ever) see must like this?”
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بی تفکر پیش هر داننده هست ** آنک با شوریده شوراننده هست
- To every one who hath knowledge it is (self-evident) without reflection, that together with the person disturbed there is a Disturber.
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حکایت عاشقی دراز هجرانی بسیار امتحانی
- Story of the lover who had been long separated (from his beloved) and had suffered much tribulation.