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گفت معشوق این همه کردی ولیک ** گوش بگشا پهن و اندر یاب نیک
- The beloved said, “Thou hast done all this, yet open thine ear wide and apprehend well;
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کانچ اصل اصل عشقست و ولاست ** آن نکردی اینچ کردی فرعهاست
- For thou hast not done what is the root of the root of love and fealty: this that thou hast done is (only) the branches.”
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گفتش آن عاشق بگو که آن اصل چیست ** گفت اصلش مردنست ونیستیست
- The lover said to her, “Tell me, what is that root?” She said, “The root thereof is to die and be naught.
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تو همه کردی نمردی زنده‌ای ** هین بمیر ار یار جان‌بازنده‌ای 1255
- Thou hast done all (else), (but) thou hast not died, thou art living. Hark, die, if thou art a self-sacrificing friend!”
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هم در آن دم شد دراز و جان بداد ** هم‌چو گل درباخت سر خندان و شاد
- Instantly he laid himself at full length (on the ground) and gave up the ghost: like the rose, he played away his head (life), laughing and rejoicing.
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ماند آن خنده برو وقف ابد ** هم‌چو جان و عقل عارف بی‌کبد
- That laughter remained with him as an endowment unto everlasting, like the untroubled spirit and reason of the gnostic.
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نور مه‌آلوده کی گردد ابد ** گر زند آن نور بر هر نیک و بد
- How should the light of the moon ever become defiled, though its light strike on everything good and evil?
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او ز جمله پاک وا گردد به ماه ** هم‌چو نور عقل و جان سوی اله
- Pure of all (defilements) it returns to the moon, even as the light of the spirit and reason (returns) unto God.
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وصف پاکی وقف بر نور مه‌است ** تا بشش گر بر نجاسات ره‌است 1260
- The quality of purity is an endowment (settled) on the light of the moon, though its radiance is (falling) on the defilements of the way.
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زان نجاسات ره و آلودگی ** نور را حاصل نگردد بدرگی
- Malignity does not accrue to the light of the moon from those defilements of the way or from pollution.