نی مشو نومید و خود را شاد کن ** پیش آن فریادرس فریاد کن‌‌

Nay, do not despair: make yourself cheerful, call for help to Him who comes at the call,

کای محب عفو از ما عفو کن ** ای طبیب رنج ناسور کهن‌‌

Saying, “Forgive us, O Thou who lovest to forgive, O Thou who hast a medicine for the old gangrenous disease!”

عکس حکمت آن شقی را یاوه کرد ** خود مبین تا بر نیارد از تو گرد

The reflexion of Wisdom led astray that miserable one (the Prophet's scribe): be not self-conceited, lest it (your self-conceit) raise up the dust from you (utterly destroy you).

ای برادر بر تو حکمت جاریه ست ** آن ز ابدال است و بر تو عاریه ست‌‌ 3255

O brother, Wisdom is flowing in upon you: it comes from the Abdál, and in you it is (only) a borrowed thing.

گر چه در خود خانه نوری یافته ست ** آن ز همسایه‌‌ی منور تافته ست‌‌

Although the house (your heart) has found a light within it, that (light) has shone forth from an illumined neighbour.

شکر کن غره مشو بینی مکن ** گوش دار و هیچ خود بینی مکن‌‌

Render thanks, be not beguiled by vanity, do not turn up your nose (in disdain), hearken attentively, and do not show any self-conceit.

صد دریغ و درد کاین عاریتی ** امتان را دور کرد از امتی‌‌

’Tis a hundred pities and griefs that this borrowed (unreal) state (of self-assertion) has put the religious communities far from religious communion.

من غلام آن که او در هر رباط ** خویش را واصل نداند بر سماط

I am the (devoted) slave of him who does not regard himself in every caravanseray (at every stage in his spiritual progress) as having attained to (the privilege of sitting at) the table (of union with God).

بس رباطی که بباید ترک کرد ** تا به مسکن در رسد یک روز مرد 3260

Many is the caravanseray that must be quitted, in order that one day the man may reach home.

گر چه آهن سرخ شد او سرخ نیست ** پرتو عاریت آتش زنی است‌‌

Though the iron has become red, it is not red (by nature): it (the redness) is a ray borrowed from something that strikes fire.