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  • ظاهرش مرگ و به باطن زندگی ** ظاهرش ابتر نهان پایندگی‌‌
  • ’Tis death outwardly but life inwardly: apparently ’tis a cutting-off (decease), in secret (in reality) ’tis permanence (life without end).

  • در رحم زادن جنین را رفتن است ** در جهان او را ز نو بشکفتن است‌‌
  • To the embryo in the womb birth is a going (to another state of existence): in the world it (the embryo) blossoms anew.

  • چون مرا سوی اجل عشق و هواست ** نهی لا تلقوا بأيدیکم مراست‌‌ 3930
  • “Since I have intense love and longing for death, the prohibition do not cast yourselves (into destruction) is (meant) for me,

  • ز آنکه نهی از دانه‌‌ی شیرین بود ** تلخ را خود نهی حاجت کی شود
  • Because (only) the sweet berry is prohibited; (for) how should it become necessary to prohibit the sour one?

  • دانه‌‌ای که تلخ باشد مغز و پوست ** تلخی و مکروهی‌‌اش خود نهی اوست‌‌
  • The berry that has a sour kernel and rind—its very sourness and disagreeableness are (serve as) a prohibition of it.

  • دانه‌‌ی مردن مرا شیرین شده ست ** بل هم احیاء پی من آمده ست‌‌
  • To me the berry of dying has become sweet: (the text) nay, they are living has come (from God) on my account.

  • اقتلونی یا ثقاتی لائما ** إن فی قتلی حیاتی دایما
  • Slay me, my trusty friends, slay me, vile as I am: verily, in my being slain is my life for evermore.

  • إن فی موتی حیاتی یا فتی ** کم أفارق موطنی حتی متی‌‌ 3935
  • Verily, in my death is my life, O youth—how long shall I be parted from my home? Until when?

  • فرقتی لو لم تکن فی ذا السکون ** لم یقل إنا إليه راجعون‌‌
  • If there were not in my staying (in this world) my separation (from God), He would not have said, ‘Verily, we are returning to Him.’”

  • راجع آن باشد که باز آید به شهر ** سوی وحدت آید از تفریق دهر
  • The returning one is he that comes back to his (native) city, and (fleeing) from the separation (plurality) of Time approaches the Unity.

  • افتادن رکابدار هر باری پیش علی کرم الله وجهه که ای امیر المؤمنین از بهر خدا مرا بکش و از این قضا برهان‌‌
  • How the stirrup-holder of ‘Alí, may God honour his person, came (to him), saying, “For God's sake, kill me and deliver me from this doom.”