ای ز غیرت بر سبو سنگی زده ** و این سبو ز اشکست کاملتر شده‌‌

O thou who from jealousy hast hurled a stone at the jug, and thy brokenness has in truth become soundness,

خم شکسته آب از او ناریخته ** صد درستی زین شکست انگیخته‌‌

The jar is shattered, (but) the water is not spilled from it: from this shattering have arisen a hundred soundnesses.

جزو جزو خم به رقص است و به حال ** عقل جزوی را نموده این محال‌‌

Every piece of the jar is in dance and ecstasy, (though) to the partial (discursive) reason this seems absurd.

نی سبو پیدا در این حالت نه آب ** خوش ببین و الله اعلم بالصواب‌‌

In this state (of ecstasy) neither the jug is manifest nor the water. Consider well, and God knoweth best what is right.

چون در معنی زنی بازت کنند ** پر فکرت زن که شهبازت کنند 2870

When you knock at the door of Reality, it will be opened to you: beat the pinion of thought, in order that you may be made a king-falcon.

پر فکرت شد گل آلود و گران ** ز آن که گل خواری ترا گل شد چو نان‌‌

The pinion of your thought has become mud-stained and heavy because you are a clay-eater: clay has become to you as bread.

نان گل است و گوشت کمتر خور از این ** تا نمانی همچو گل اندر زمین‌‌

Bread and meat are (originally) clay: eat little thereof, that you may not remain in the earth, like clay.

چون گرسنه می‌‌شوی سگ می‌‌شوی ** تند و بد پیوند و بد رگ می‌‌شوی‌‌

When you become hungry, you become a dog: you become fierce and ill-tempered and ill-natured.

چون شدی تو سیر مرداری شدی ** بی‌‌خبر بی‌‌پا چو دیواری شدی‌‌

When you have eaten your fill, you have become a carcase: you have become devoid of understanding and without feet (inert), like a wall.

پس دمی مردار و دیگر دم سگی ** چون کنی در راه شیران خوش تگی‌‌ 2875

So at one time you are a carcase and at another time a dog: how will you run well in the road of the lions (follow the saints)?