Become a lover, seek a fair minion, hunt a waterfowl from river to river.
کی بری زان آب کان آبت برد ** کی کنی زان فهم فهمت را خورد
How will you get water (spirituality) from that one who takes your water away? How will you apprehend (the truth) from that one (who) consumes your (spiritual) apprehension?
غیر این معقولها معقولها ** یابی اندر عشق با فر و بها
In Love, (which is) glorious and resplendent, you will find intelligible things other than these intelligible things.
غیر این عقل تو حق را عقلهاست ** که بدان تدبیر اسباب سماست
To God belong intelligences other than this intelligence of yours, (intelligences) by which the mediate celestial things are ruled;