شکر گویید ای سپاه و چاکران ** رسته‌‌اید از شهوت و از چاک ران‌‌

Render thanks, O Host (of Heaven) and Servants (of God)! Ye are freed from lust and sexual intercourse.

گر از آن معنی نهم من بر شما ** مر شما را بیش نپذیرد سما

If I impose that kind of nature on you, Heaven will accept you no more.

عصمتی که مر شما را در تن است ** آن ز عکس عصمت و حفظ من است‌‌

The preservation (from sin) which ye have in your bodies is from the reflexion of My preservation and care (of you).

آن ز من بینید نز خود هین و هین ** تا نچربد بر شما دیو لعین‌‌

Oh, beware! Regard that as (coming) from Me, not from yourselves, lest the accursed Devil prevail against you.”

آن چنان که کاتب وحی رسول ** دید حکمت در خود و نور اصول‌‌ 3355

As (for example) the writer of the Revelation given to the Prophet deemed the Wisdom and the Original Light (to be residing) in himself.

خویش را هم صوت مرغان خدا ** می‌‌شمرد آن بد صفیری چون صدا

He was reckoning himself a fellow-songster of the Birds of God, (whereas) that (which proceeded from him) was (only) a whistle resembling an echo.

لحن مرغان را اگر واصف شوی ** بر مراد مرغ کی واقف شوی‌‌

If you become an exponent (imitator) of the song of birds, how will you become acquainted with the (real) meaning of the bird?

گر بیاموزی صفیر بلبلی ** تو چه دانی کاو چه دارد با گلی‌‌

If you learn the note of a nightingale, how will you know what (feelings) it has towards a rose?

ور بدانی باشد آن هم از گمان ** چون ز لب جنبان گمانهای کران‌‌

Or if you do know, ’twill only be from surmise, like the conjectures formed by deaf people from those who move their lips.

به عیادت رفتن کر بر همسایه‌‌ی رنجور خویش‌‌

How the deaf man went to visit his sick neighbour.

آن کری را گفت افزون مایه‌‌ای ** که ترا رنجور شد همسایه‌‌ای‌‌ 3360

One possessed of much wealth said to a deaf man, “A neighbour of thine is fallen ill.”