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بهر این خاتم شدست او که به جود ** مثل او نه بود و نه خواهند بود
- He has become the Seal (of the prophets) for this reason that there never was any one like him in munificence nor ever shall be.
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چونک در صنعت برد استاد دست ** نه تو گویی ختم صنعت بر توست
- When a master surpasses (all others) in his craft, don't you say (to him), “The craft is sealed on thee”?
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در گشاد ختمها تو خاتمی ** در جهان روح‌بخشان حاتمی
- In the opening of seals thou (O Mohammed) art the Seal: in the world of the givers of spiritual life thou art the Hátim.
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هست اشارات محمدالمراد ** کل گشاد اندر گشاد اندر گشاد
- The purport (is this, that) the indications (esoteric teachings) of Mohammed are wholly revelation within revelation within revelation.
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صد هزاران آفرین بر جان او ** بر قدوم و دور فرزندان او 175
- A hundred thousand blessings on his spirit and on the advent and cycle of his sons!
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آن خلیفه‌زادگان مقبلش ** زاده‌اند از عنصر جان و دلش
- Those fortunate Caliph-born sons of his are born of the substance of his soul and heart.
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گر ز بغداد و هری یا از ری‌اند ** بی‌مزاج آب و گل نسل وی‌اند
- Whether they be of Baghdád or Herát or Rayy, they are his progeny without admixture of water and earth.
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شاخ گل هر جا که روید هم گلست ** خم مل هر جا که جوشد هم ملست
- Wherever the rose-bough blossoms, ’tis still the (same) rose; wherever the wine-jar bubbles, ’tis still the (same) wine.
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گر ز مغرب بر زند خورشید سر ** عین خورشیدست نه چیز دگر
- If the sun uplift its head (rise) from the west, ’tis the same sun, not anything else.
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عیب چینان را ازین دم کور دار ** هم بستاری خود ای کردگار 180
- O Maker, by means of Thy veiling grace keep the fault-pickers blind to this (mystic) utterance.