گوش جان و چشم جان جز این حس است ** گوش عقل و گوش ظن زین مفلس است‌‌

The spiritual ear and eye are other than this sense-perception, the ear of (discursive) reason and the ear of opinion are destitute of this (inspiration).

لفظ جبرم عشق را بی‌‌صبر کرد ** و آن که عاشق نیست حبس جبر کرد

The word “compulsion” (jabr) made me impatient (uncontrollable) for love's sake, while it confined in (the prison of) compulsion him who is not a lover.

این معیت با حق است و جبر نیست ** این تجلی مه است این ابر نیست‌‌

This is union with God, and it is not compulsion: this is the shining forth of the moon, this is not a cloud.

ور بود این جبر جبر عامه نیست ** جبر آن اماره‌‌ی خودکامه نیست‌‌ 1465

And if this be compulsion, it is not the compulsion of (suffered by) the vulgar: it is not the compulsion of (exerted by) the evil-commanding self-willed (soul).

جبر را ایشان شناسند ای پسر ** که خدا بگشادشان در دل بصر

O son, (only) they know (the real meaning of) compulsion in whose hearts God has opened the sight (of the spiritual eye).

غیب و آینده بر ایشان گشت فاش ** ذکر ماضی پیش ایشان گشت لاش‌‌

To them the unseen and the future became manifest; to them recollection of the past became naught.

اختیار و جبر ایشان دیگر است ** قطره‌‌ها اندر صدفها گوهر است‌‌

Their freewill and compulsion is different (from that of ordinary men): in oyster-shells drops (of rain) are pearls.

هست بیرون قطره‌‌ی خرد و بزرگ ** در صدف آن در خرد است و سترگ‌‌

Outside (of the shell) it is a drop of water, small or great, (but) within the shell it is a small or big pearl.

طبع ناف آهو است آن قوم را ** از برون خون و درونشان مشکها 1470

Those persons have the nature of the muskdeer's gland: externally they are (as) blood, while within them is the fragrance of musk.

تو مگو کاین مایه بیرون خون بود ** چون رود در ناف مشکی چون شود

Do not say, “This substance externally is blood: how should it become a musky perfume when it goes into the gland?”