You are your own bird your own prey, and your own snare; you are your own seat of honour, your own floor, and your own root.
جوهر آن باشد که قایم با خودست ** آن عرض باشد که فرع او شدست
The substance is that which subsists in itself; the accident is that which has become a derivative of it (of the substance).
گر تو آدم‌زاده‌ای چون او نشین ** جمله ذریات را در خود ببین
If you are born of Adam, sit like him and behold all his progeny in yourself
چیست اندر خم که اندر نهر نیست ** چیست اندر خانه که اندر شهر نیست810
What is in the jar that is not (also) in the river? What is in the house that is not (also) in the city?
این جهان خمست و دل چون جوی آب ** این جهان حجره‌ست و دل شهر عجاب
This world is the jar, and the heart (spirit) is like the river; this world is the chamber, and the heart is the wonderful city.
پیدا کردن سلیمان علیه‌السلام کی مرا خالصا لامر الله جهدست در ایمان تو یک ذره غرضی نیست مرا نه در نفس تو و حسن تو و نه در ملک تو خود بینی چون چشم جان باز شود به نورالله
How Solomon, on whom be peace, explained (to Bilqís), saying, "My labour in (bringing about) thy (conversion to the) Faith is purely for God’s sake: I have not one atom of self-interest, either as regards thy person or thy beauty or thy kingdom. Thou thyself wilt see (this) when the eye of thy spirit is opened by the light of God."
هین بیا که من رسولم دعوتی ** چون اجل شهوت‌کشم نه شهوتی
“Hark, come, for I am a Messenger (Prophet) sent to call (the people to God): like Death, I am the slayer of lust, I am not given to lust.
ور بود شهوت امیر شهوتم ** نه اسیر شهوت روی بتم
And if there be lust (in me), I am the ruler of (my) lust: lam not captive to lust for the face of an idol.
بت‌شکن بودست اصل اصل ما ** چون خلیل حق و جمله انبیا
My deepest nature is a breaker of idols, like (Abraham) the Friend of God and all the prophets.
گر در آییم ای رهی در بتکده ** بت سجود آرد نه ما در معبده815
O slave, if I enter the idol-temple, the idol will prostrate itself, not I, in adoration.”