که بدین عقل آوری ارزاق را ** زان دگر مفرش کنی اطباق را 3235
For by this (individual) intelligence you procure the means of subsistence, (while) by that other (universal intelligence) you make the tiers of Heaven a carpet (under your feet).
چون ببازی عقل در عشق صمد ** عشر امثالت دهد یا هفت‌صد
When you gamble away (sacrifice) your intelligence in love of the Lord, He gives you ten like unto it or seven hundred.
آن زنان چون عقلها درباختند ** بر رواق عشق یوسف تاختند
Those women (of Egypt), when they gambled away (sacrificed) their intelligences, sped onward to the pavilion of Joseph's love.
عقلشان یک‌دم ستد ساقی عمر ** سیر گشتند از خرد باقی مرد
(Love which is) the cupbearer of life took away their intelligence in one moment: they drank their fill of wisdom all the rest of their lives.
اصل صد یوسف جمال ذوالجلال ** ای کم از زن شو فدای آن جمال
The beauty of the Almighty is the source of a hundred Josephs: O you who are less than a woman, devote yourself to that beauty!
عشق برد بحث را ای جان و بس ** کو ز گفت و گو شود فریاد رس 3240
O (dear) soul, Love alone cuts disputation short, for it (alone) comes to the rescue when you cry for help against arguments.
حیرتی آید ز عشق آن نطق را ** زهره نبود که کند او ماجرا
Eloquence is dumbfounded by Love: it dare not engage in altercation;
که بترسد گر جوابی وا دهد ** گوهری از لنج او بیرون فتد
For he (the lover) fears that, if he answer back, a pearl (his inner experience) may fall out of his mouth.
لب ببندد سخت او از خیر و شر ** تا نباید کز دهان افتد گهر
He closes his lips tight against (uttering) good or evil (words) lest the pearl should fall from his mouth (and be lost),
هم‌چنانک گفت آن یار رسول ** چون نبی بر خواندی بر ما فصول
Even as the Companion of the Prophet said, “Whenever the Prophet recited sections (of the Qur’án) to us,