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  • حرف ظرف آمد در او معنی چو آب ** بحر معنی عنده أم الکتاب‌‌
  • The letters are the vessel: therein the meaning is (contained) like water; (but) the sea of the meaning is (with God)—with Him is the Ummu ’l-Kitáb.

  • بحر تلخ و بحر شیرین در جهان ** در میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان‌‌
  • In this world the bitter sea and the sweet sea (are divided)— between them is a barrier which they do not seek to cross.

  • وانگه این هر دو ز یک اصلی روان ** بر گذر زین هر دو رو تا اصل آن‌‌
  • Know that both these flow from one origin. Pass on from them both, go (all the way) to their origin!

  • زر قلب و زر نیکو در عیار ** بی‌‌محک هرگز ندانی ز اعتبار
  • Without the touchstone you will never know in the assay adulterated gold and fine gold by (using your own) judgement.

  • هر که را در جان خدا بنهد محک ** هر یقین را باز داند او ز شک‌‌ 300
  • Any one in whose soul God shall put the touchstone, he will distinguish every certainty from doubt.

  • در دهان زنده خاشاکی جهد ** آن گه آرامد که بیرونش نهد
  • A piece of rubbish jumps into the mouth of a living man, and only when he ejects it is he at ease.

  • در هزاران لقمه یک خاشاک خرد ** چون در آمد حس زنده پی ببرد
  • When, amongst thousands of morsels (of food), one little piece of rubbish entered (his mouth), the living man's sense (of touch or taste) tracked it down.

  • حس دنیا نردبان این جهان ** حس دینی نردبان آسمان‌‌
  • The worldly sense is the ladder to this world; the religious sense is the ladder to Heaven.

  • صحت این حس بجویید از طبیب ** صحت آن حس بخواهید از حبیب‌‌
  • Seek ye the well-being of the former sense from the physician; beg ye the well-being of the latter sense from the Beloved.

  • صحت این حس ز معموری تن ** صحت آن حس ز تخریب بدن‌‌ 305
  • The health of the former arises from the flourishing state of the body; the health of the latter arises from the ruin of the body.