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دل مدزد از دلربای روح‌بخش ** که سوارت می‌کند بر پشت رخش 1160
- Do not steal thy heart away from the spirit-bestowing heart-ravisher, for he will mount thee on the back of Rakhsh.
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سر مدزد از سر فراز تاج‌ده ** کو ز پای دل گشاید صد گره
- Do not steal thy head away from the crown-giving one whose head is exalted, for he will untie a hundred knots from the foot of thy heart.
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با کی گویم در همه ده زنده کو ** سوی آب زندگی پوینده کو
- Whom shall I tell? Where in the village is any (spiritually) living one? Where is any one that runs towards the Water of Life?
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تو به یک خواری گریزانی ز عشق ** تو به جز نامی چه می‌دانی ز عشق
- Thou art fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation: what dost thou know of Love except the name?
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عشق را صد ناز و استکبار هست ** عشق با صد ناز می‌آید به دست
- Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.
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عشق چون وافیست وافی می‌خرد ** در حریف بی‌وفا می‌ننگرد 1165
- Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade.
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چون درختست آدمی و بیخ عهد ** بیخ را تیمار می‌باید به جهد
- Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.
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عهد فاسد بیخ پوسیده بود ** وز ثمار و لطف ببریده بود
- A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.
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شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود
- Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
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ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست
- And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.