غیرت آن باشد که او غیر همه ست ** آن که افزون از بیان و دمدمه ست‌‌

The jealousy (of God) is this, that He is other than all things, that He is beyond explanation and the noise of words.

ای دریغا اشک من دریا بدی ** تا نثار دل بر زیبا بدی‌‌

Oh, alas! Would that my tears were an ocean, that they might be strewn as an offering to the fair charmer!

طوطی من مرغ زیرکسار من ** ترجمان فکرت و اسرار من‌‌ 1715

My parrot, my clever-headed bird, the interpreter of my thought and inmost consciousness,

هر چه روزی داد و ناداد آیدم ** او ز اول گفته تا یاد آیدم‌‌

She has told me from the first, that I might remember it, whatsoever should come to me as my allotted portion of right and wrong.”

طوطیی کاید ز وحی آواز او ** پیش از آغاز وجود آغاز او

The parrot whose voice comes from (Divine) inspiration and whose beginning was before the beginning of existence—

اندرون تست آن طوطی نهان ** عکس او را دیده تو بر این و آن‌‌

That parrot is hidden within thee: thou hast seen the reflexion of her upon this and that (the things of the phenomenal world).

می‌‌برد شادیت را تو شاد از او ** می‌‌پذیری ظلم را چون داد از او

She takes away thy joy, and because of her thou art rejoicing: thou receivest injury from her as though it were justice.

ای که جان را بهر تن می‌‌سوختی ** سوختی جان را و تن افروختی‌‌ 1720

O thou who wert burning the soul for the body's sake, thou hast burned (destroyed) the soul and illumined (delighted) the body.

سوختم من سوخته خواهد کسی ** تا ز من آتش زند اندر خسی‌‌

I am burning (with love of God): does any one want tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with fire from me.

سوخته چون قابل آتش بود ** سوخته بستان که آتش کش بود

Inasmuch as tinder is combustible, take tinder that catches fire (readily).