آن گروهی کز فقیری بی‌سرند ** صد جهت زان مردگان فانی‌تراند
The class (of men) who are headless (selfless) because of (their spiritual) poverty are in a hundred respects more naughted than those dead (and buried).
مرده از یک روست فانی در گزند ** صوفیان از صد جهت فانی شدند
The dead man is naughted (only) from one point of view, namely), as regards loss (of bodily life); the Súfís have been naughted in a hundred respects.
مرگ یک قتلست و این سیصد هزار ** هر یکی را خونبهایی بی‌شمار
(Bodily) death is a single killing, while this (spiritual death) is three hundred thousand (killings), for each one of which there is a blood-price beyond reckoning.
گرچه کشت این قوم را حق بارها ** ریخت بهر خونبها انبارها 1540
Though God hath killed these folk many a time, (yet) He hath poured forth (infinite) stores (of grace) in payment of the blood-price.
هم‌چو جرجیس‌اند هر یک در سرار ** کشته گشته زنده گشته شصت بار
Every one (of these martyrs) is inwardly like Jirjís (St George): they have been killed and brought to life (again) sixty times.
کشته از ذوق سنان دادگر ** می‌بسوزد که بزن زخمی دگر
From his delight in (being smitten by) the spear-point of the (Divine) Judge, the killed one is ever burning (in rapture) and crying. Strike another blow!”
والله از عشق وجود جان‌پرست ** کشته بر قتل دوم عاشق‌ترست
(I swear) by God, from love for the existence that fosters the spirit, the killed one longs (still) more passionately to be killed a second time.
گفت قاضی من قضادار حیم ** حاکم اصحاب گورستان کیم
The Cadi said, “I am the cadi for the living: how am I the judge of the occupants of the graveyard?
این به صورت گر نه در گورست پست ** گورها در دودمانش آمدست 1545
If to outward seeming this man is not laid low in the grave, (yet) graves have entered into his household.
بس بدیدی مرده اندر گور تو ** گور را در مرده بین ای کور تو
You have seen many a dead man in the grave: (now), O, blind one, see the grave in a dead man.