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گرمدارانت ترا گوری کنند ** طعمهی موران و مارانت کنند 3270
- They whose love warmed thee will dig a grave for thee, they will make thee a morsel for ants and reptiles.
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بینی از گند تو گیرد آن کسی ** کاو به پیش تو همیمردی بسی
- That one who many a time in thy presence was dying (with desire for thee) will hold his nose at thy stench.”
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پرتو روح است نطق و چشم و گوش ** پرتو آتش بود در آب جوش
- The beams of the spirit are speech and eye and ear: the beam (effect) of fire is the bubbling in the water.
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آن چنان که پرتو جان بر تن است ** پرتو ابدال بر جان من است
- As the beam of the spirit falls on the body, so fall the beams of the Abdál on my soul.
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جان جان چون واکشد پا را ز جان ** جان چنان گردد که بیجان تن بدان
- When the Soul of the soul withdraws from the soul, the soul becomes even as the soulless (lifeless) body. Know (this for sure)!
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سر از آن رو مینهم من بر زمین ** تا گواه من بود در روز دین 3275
- For that reason I am laying my head (humbly) on the earth, so that she (the earth) may be my witness on the Day of Judgement.
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یوم دین که زلزلت زلزالها ** این زمین باشد گواه حالها
- On the Day of Judgement, when she shall be made to quake mightily, this earth will bear witness to all that passed (in and from us);
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کاو تحدث جهرة أخبارها ** در سخن آید زمین و خارهها
- For she will plainly declare what she knows: earth and rocks will begin to speak.
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فلسفی منکر شود در فکر و ظن ** گو برو سر را بر آن دیوار زن
- The philosopher, in his (vain) thought and opinion, becomes disbelieving: bid him go and dash his head against that wall!
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نطق آب و نطق خاک و نطق گل ** هست محسوس حواس اهل دل
- The speech of water, the speech of earth, and the speech of mud are apprehended by the senses of them that have hearts (the mystics).