تا که باقی تن نگردد زار ازو ** گرچه بود آن تو شو بیزار ازو
In order that the rest of thy body may not be made miserable by it, become quit of it, although it was (once) thine.
گفت بیزارم ز غیر ذات تو ** غیر نبود آنک او شد مات تو
He (Noah) said, “I am quit of aught other than Thy Essence; he that has died in Thee is not other (than Thou).
تو همی دانی که چونم با تو من ** بیست چندانم که با باران چمن
Thou knowest how I am to Thee: I am (to Thee) as the orchard to the rain, and twenty times as much—
زنده از تو شاد از تو عایلی ** مغتذی بی واسطه و بی حایلی
Living by Thee, rejoicing because of Thee, a pauper receiving sustenance without any medium or intervention;
متصل نه منفصل نه ای کمال ** بلک بی چون و چگونه و اعتلال1340
Not united, not separated, O Perfection; nay, devoid of quality or description or causation.
ماهیانیم و تو دریای حیات ** زنده‌ایم از لطفت ای نیکو صفات
We are the fishes, and Thou the Sea of Life: we live by Thy favour, O Thou whose attributes are excellent.
تو نگنجی در کنار فکرتی ** نی به معلولی قرین چون علتی
Thou art not contained in the bosom of any thought, nor art Thou joined with the effect, as a cause.
پیش ازین طوفان و بعد این مرا ** تو مخاطب بوده‌ای در ماجرا
Before this Flood and after it, Thou hast been the object of my address in (every) colloquy.
با تو می‌گفتم نه با ایشان سخن ** ای سخن‌بخش نو و آن کهن
I was speaking with Thee, not with them, O Thou that art the Giver of speech (both) newly and of old.
نه که عاشق روز و شب گوید سخن ** گاه با اطلال و گاهی با دمن1345
Is it not the case that the lover, day and night, converses now with the ruins (of the beloved's abode), now with the traces (of her habitation)?
روی با اطلال کرده ظاهرا ** او کرا می‌گوید آن مدحت کرا
To outward seeming, he has turned his face towards the ruins, (but) to whom is he (really) saying that song of praise, to whom?
شکر طوفان را کنون بگماشتی ** واسطه‌ی اطلال را بر داشتی
Thanks (be to Thee)! Now Thou hast let loose the Flood and removed the ruins which stood between (me and Thee).
زانک اطلال لیم و بد بدند ** نه ندایی نه صدایی می‌زدند
(I thank Thee) because they were vile and evil ruins, uttering neither a cry nor an echo.
من چنان اطلال خواهم در خطاب ** کز صدا چون کوه واگوید جواب
I desire such ruins to speak with as answer back, like the mountain, by an echo,
تا مثنا بشنوم من نام تو ** عاشقم برنام جان آرام تو1350
So that I may hear Thy name redoubled, (for) I am in love with Thy soul-soothing name.
هرنبی زان دوست دارد کوه را ** تا مثنا بشنود نام ترا
That is why every prophet holds the mountains dear: (’tis) that he may hear Thy name redoubled.
آن که پست مثال سنگ لاخ ** موش را شاید نه ما را در مناخ
That low mountain, resembling stony ground, is suitable for a mouse, not for us, as a resting-place.
من بگویم او نگردد یار من ** بی صدا ماند دم گفتار من
(When) I speak, it does not join with me: the breath of my speech remains without (any) echo.
با زمین آن به که هموارش کنی ** نیست همدم با قدم یارش کنی
’Tis better that thou level it with the earth; it is not in accord with thy breath (voice): thou shouldst join it with thy foot.”
گفت ای نوح ار تو خواهی جمله را ** حشر گردانم بر آرم از ثری1355
He (God) said, “O Noah, if thou desire, I will assemble them all and raise them from (their graves in) the earth.
بهر کنعانی دل تو نشکنم ** لیکت از احوال آگه می‌کنم
I will not break thy heart for the sake of a Canaan, but I am acquainting (thee) with (their real) states.”
گفت نه نه راضیم که تو مرا ** هم کنی غرقه اگر باید ترا
He (Noah) said, “Nay, nay, I am content that Thou shouldst drown me too, if it behove Thee (to do so).
هر زمانم غرقه می‌کن من خوشم ** حکم تو جانست چون جان می‌کشم
Keep drowning me every instant, I am pleased: Thy ordinance is my (very) soul, I bear it (with me) as my soul.
ننگرم کس را وگر هم بنگرم ** او بهانه باشد و تو منظرم
I do not look at any one (but Thee), and even if I do look at (any one), he is (only) a pretext, and Thou art the (real) object of my regard.
عاشق صنع توم در شکر و صبر ** عاشق مصنوع کی باشم چو گبر1360
I am in love with Thy making (both) in (the hour of) thanksgiving and (in the hour of) patience; how should I be in love, like the infidel, with that which Thou hast made?”