گرچه زاهد را بود روزی شگرف ** کی بود یک روز او خمسین الف
Although, for the ascetic, one day is of great value, (yet) how should his one day be (equal to) fifty thousand (years)?
قدر هر روزی ز عمر مرد کار ** باشد از سال جهان پنجه هزار
The length of every day in the life of the adept is fifty thousand of the years of the world.
عقلها زین سر بود بیرون در ** زهره‌ی وهم ار بدرد گو بدر
Intellects are excluded from this mystery: if the heart of Imagination burst, let it burst!
ترس مویی نیست اندر پیش عشق ** جمله قربانند اندر کیش عشق
In the sight of Love, fear is not (so much as) a single hair: in the law of Love, all things (else) are (offered) as a sacrifice.
عشق وصف ایزدست اما که خوف ** وصف بنده‌ی مبتلای فرج و جوف 2185
Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by lust and gluttony. [Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by vulva and belly.]
چون یحبون بخواندی در نبی ** با یحبوهم قرین در مطلبی
Since you have read in the Qur’án (the words) “they love Him” joined in a certain place with (the words) “He loves them,”
پس محبت وصف حق دان عشق نیز ** خوف نبود وصف یزدان ای عزیز
Know, then, that love (mahabbat), and excessive love (‘ishq) too, is an attribute of God: fear is not an attribute of God, O honoured sir.
وصف حق کو وصف مشتی خاک کو ** وصف حادث کو وصف پاک کو
What relation exists between the attributes of God and those of a handful of earth? What relation exists between the attributes of him who is originated in time and those of the Holy (Eternal) One?
شرح عشق ار من بگویم بر دوام ** صد قیامت بگذرد و آن ناتمام
If I should continue to describe Love, a hundred Resurrections would pass, and it (my description would still be) incomplete;
زانک تاریخ قیامت را حدست ** حد کجا آنجا که وصف ایزدست 2190
For there is a limit to the date of the Resurrection, but what limit can there be where the Divine attributes are (concerned)?