پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود

You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.

گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌ 1330

Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else).

مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود

If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?

چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌

Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.

اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌

Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!

تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور

Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.

آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست‌‌ 1335

All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine.

گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود

If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.

این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بی‌‌داد یا رب داد تست‌‌

This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.

بی‌‌طلب تو این طلب‌‌مان داده‌‌ای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشاده‌‌ای‌‌

Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.

مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد

How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.