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من حلالش کردم از خونم بریخت ** من همیگفتم حلال او میگریخت
- I absolved Him if He shed my blood: I was saying, “It is lawful (I absolve Thee),” and He was fleeing (from me).
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چون گریزانی ز نالهی خاکیان ** غم چه ریزی بر دل غمناکیان
- Since Thou art fleeing from the lament of those who are (as) dust, why pourest Thou sorrow on the hearts of the sorrowful?
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ای که هر صبحی که از مشرق بتافت ** همچو چشمهی مشرقت در جوش یافت
- O Thou, whom every dawn that shone from the East found overflowing (with abundant grace) like the bright fountain (of the sun),
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چون بهانه دادی این شیدات را ** ای بهانه شکر لبهات را 1800
- How didst Thou give (nothing but) evasion to Thy frenzied lover, O Thou the sugar of whose lips hath no price?
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ای جهان کهنه را تو جان نو ** از تن بیجان و دل افغان شنو
- O Thou who art a new soul to the old world, hear the cry (that comes) from my body (which is) without soul and heart.
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شرح گل بگذار از بهر خدا ** شرح بلبل گو که شد از گل جدا
- Leave the tale of the Rose! For God's sake set forth the tale of the Nightingale that is parted from the Rose!
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از غم و شادی نباشد جوش ما ** با خیال و وهم نبود هوش ما
- Our emotion is not caused by grief and joy, our consciousness is not related to fancy and imagination.
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حالتی دیگر بود کان نادر است ** تو مشو منکر که حق بس قادر است
- There is another state (of consciousness), which is rare: do not thou disbelieve, for God is very mighty.
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تو قیاس از حالت انسان مکن ** منزل اندر جور و در احسان مکن 1805
- Do not judge from the (normal) state of man, do not abide in wrong-doing and in well-doing.
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جور و احسان رنج و شادی حادث است ** حادثان میرند و حقشان وارث است
- Wrong-doing and well-doing, grief and joy, are things that come into existence; those who come into existence die; God is their heir.