قافیه اندیشم و دل دار من ** گویدم مندیش جز دیدار من‌‌

I am thinking of rhymes, and my Sweetheart says to me, “Do not think of aught except vision of Me.

خوش نشین ای قافیه اندیش من ** قافیه‌‌ی دولت تویی در پیش من‌‌

Sit at thy ease, My rhyme-meditating (friend): in My presence thou art rhymed with (attached to) felicity.

حرف چه بود تا تو اندیشی از آن ** حرف چه بود خار دیوار رزان‌‌

What are words that thou shouldst think of them? What are words? Thorns in the hedge of the vineyard.

حرف و صوت و گفت را بر هم زنم ** تا که بی‌‌این هر سه با تو دم زنم‌‌ 1730

I will throw word and sound and speech into confusion, that without these three I may converse with thee.

آن دمی کز آدمش کردم نهان ** با تو گویم ای تو اسرار جهان‌‌

That word which I kept hidden from Adam I will speak to thee, O (thou who art the) consciousness of the world.

آن دمی را که نگفتم با خلیل ** و آن غمی را که نداند جبرئیل‌‌

(I will tell to thee) that word which I did not communicate to Abraham, and that pain (love) which Gabriel does not know.”

آن دمی کز وی مسیحا دم نزد ** حق ز غیرت نیز بی‌‌ما هم نزد

That word of which the Messiah (Jesus) breathed not a word God, from jealousy, did not utter even without má.

ما چه باشد در لغت اثبات و نفی ** من نه اثباتم منم بی‌‌ذات و نفی‌‌

What is má in language? Positive and negative. I am not positive, I am selfless and negated.

من کسی در ناکسی دریافتم ** پس کسی در ناکسی دربافتم‌‌ 1735

I found (true) individuality in non-individuality: therefore I wove (my) individuality into non-individuality.

جمله شاهان بنده‌‌ی بنده‌‌ی خودند ** جمله خلقان مرده‌‌ی مرده‌‌ی خودند

All kings are enslaved to their slaves, all people are dead (ready to die) for one who dies for them.