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  • شمس جان کاو خارج آمد از اثیر ** نبودش در ذهن و در خارج نظیر
  • But the Sun by which the aether was brought into existence hath no peer.

  • در تصور ذات او را گنج کو ** تا در آید در تصور مثل او
  • Where is room in the imagination for His essence, that the like of Him should come into the imagination?

  • چون حدیث روی شمس الدین رسید ** شمس چارم آسمان سر در کشید
  • When news arrived of the face of Shamsu’ddín (the Sun of the Religion), the sun of the fourth heaven drew in its head (hid itself for shame).

  • واجب آید چون که آمد نام او ** شرح کردن رمزی از انعام او
  • Since his name has come (to my lips), it behoves me to set forth some hint of his bounty.

  • این نفس جان دامنم بر تافته ست ** بوی پیراهان یوسف یافته ست‌‌ 125
  • At this moment my Soul has plucked my skirt: he has caught the perfume of Joseph's vest.

  • از برای حق صحبت سالها ** باز گو حالی از آن خوش حالها
  • (He said): “For the sake of our years of companionship, recount one of those sweet ecstasies,

  • تا زمین و آسمان خندان شود ** عقل و روح و دیده صد چندان شود
  • That earth and heaven may laugh (with joy), that intellect and spirit and eye may increase a hundredfold.”

  • لا تکلفنی فإنی فی الفنا ** کلت أفهامی فلا أحصی ثنا
  • (I said): “Do not lay tasks on me, for I have passed away from myself (faná); my apprehensions are blunted and I know not how to praise.

  • کل شی‌‌ء قاله غیر المفیق ** إن تکلف أو تصلف لا یلیق‌‌
  • Everything that is said by one who has not returned to consciousness, if he constrains himself or boastfully exaggerates, is unseemly.

  • من چه گویم یک رگم هشیار نیست ** شرح آن یاری که او را یار نیست‌‌ 130
  • How should I—not a vein of mine is sensible—describe that Friend who hath no peer?