عکس آن تصویر و آن کردارها ** زد بر این صافی شده دیوارها

The reflexion of those (Chinese) pictures and works (of art) struck upon these walls which had been made pure (from stain).

هر چه آن جا دید اینجا به نمود ** دیده را از دیده خانه می‌‌ربود

All that he had seen there (in the Chinese room) seemed more beautiful here: ’twas snatching the eye from the socket.

رومیان آن صوفیانند ای پدر ** بی‌‌ز تکرار و کتاب و بی‌‌هنر

The Greeks, O father, are the Súfís: (they are) without (independent of) study and books and erudition,

لیک صیقل کرده‌‌اند آن سینه‌‌ها ** پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینه‌‌ها

But they have burnished their breasts (and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.

آن صفای آینه وصف دل است ** کاو نقوش بی‌‌عدد را قابل است‌‌ 3485

That purity of the mirror is the attribute of the heart (which) receives the infinite form.

صورت بی‌‌صورت بی‌‌حد غیب ** ز آینه‌‌ی دل تافت بر موسی ز جیب‌‌

That Moses (the perfect saint) holds in his bosom the formless infinite form of the Unseen (reflected) from the mirror of his heart.

گر چه آن صورت نگنجد در فلک ** نه به عرش و فرش و دریا و سمک‌‌

Although that form is not contained in Heaven, nor in the empyrean nor the earth nor the sea nor the Fish,

ز آن که محدود است و معدود است آن ** آینه‌‌ی دل را نباشد حد بدان‌‌

Because (all) those are bounded and numbered—(yet is it contained in the heart): know that the mirror of the heart hath no bound.

عقل اینجا ساکت آمد یا مضل ** ز آنکه دل با اوست یا خود اوست دل‌‌

Here the understanding becomes silent or (else) it leads into error, because the heart is with Him (God), or indeed the heart is He.

عکس هر نقشی نتابد تا ابد ** جز ز دل هم با عدد هم بی‌‌عدد 3490

The reflexion of every image shines unto everlasting from the heart alone, both with plurality and without.