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 بیعدد3490
The reflexion of every image shines unto everlasting from the heart alone, both with plurality and without.
تا ابد هر نقش نو کاید بر او ** مینماید بیحجابی اندر او
Unto everlasting every new image that falls on it (the heart) is appearing therein without any veil.
اهل صیقل رستهاند از بوی و رنگ ** هر دمی بینند خوبی بیدرنگ
They that burnish (their hearts) have escaped from (mere) scent and colour: they behold Beauty at every moment without tarrying.
نقش و قشر علم را بگذاشتند ** رایت عین الیقین افراشتند
They have relinquished the form and husk of knowledge, they have raised the banner of the eye of certainty.
رفت فکر و روشنایی یافتند ** نحر و بحر آشنایی یافتند
Thought is gone, and they have gained light: they have gained the throat (core and essence) and the sea (ultimate source) of gnosis.
مرگ کاین جمله از او در وحشتاند ** میکنند این قوم بر وی ریشخند3495
Death, of which all these (others) are sore afraid, this people (the perfect Súfís) are holding in derision.
کس نیابد بر دل ایشان ظفر ** بر صدف آید ضرر نی بر گهر
None gains the victory over their hearts: the hurt falls on the oyster-shell, not on the pearl.
گر چه نحو و فقه را بگذاشتند ** لیک محو و فقر را برداشتند
Though they have let go grammar (nahw) and jurisprudence (fiqh), yet they have taken up (instead) the (mystical) self-effacement of (spiritual) poverty (faqr).
تا نقوش هشت جنت تافته ست ** لوح دلشان را پذیرا یافته ست
Ever since the forms of the Eight Paradises have shone forth, they have found the tablets of their (the Súfís') hearts receptive.