فرق نتوان کرد نور هر یکی ** چون به نورش روی آری بی‌‌شکی‌‌

To distinguish without any doubt the light of each, when you turn your face towards their light, is impossible.

گر تو صد سیب و صد آبی بشمری ** صد نماند یک شود چون بفشری‌‌ 680

If you count a hundred apples or a hundred quinces, they do not remain a hundred (but) become one, when you crush them (together).

در معانی قسمت و اعداد نیست ** در معانی تجزیه و افراد نیست‌‌

In things spiritual there is no division and no numbers; in things spiritual there is no partition and no individuals.

اتحاد یار با یاران خوش است ** پای معنی گیر صورت سرکش است‌‌

Sweet is the oneness of the Friend with His friends: catch (and cling to) the foot of spirit. Form is headstrong.

صورت سرکش گدازان کن به رنج ** تا ببینی زیر او وحدت چو گنج‌‌

Make headstrong form waste away with tribulation, that beneath it you may descry unity, like a (buried) treasure;

ور تو نگذاری عنایتهای او ** خود گدازد ای دلم مولای او

And if you waste it not away, His favours will waste it—oh, my heart is His vassal.

او نماید هم به دلها خویش را ** او بدوزد خرقه‌‌ی درویش را 685

He even showeth Himself to (our) hearts, He seweth the tattered frock of the dervish.

منبسط بودیم و یک جوهر همه ** بی‌‌سر و بی‌‌پا بدیم آن سر همه‌‌

Simple were we and all one substance; we were all without head and without foot yonder.

یک گهر بودیم همچون آفتاب ** بی‌‌گره بودیم و صافی همچو آب‌‌

We were one substance, like the Sun; we were knotless and pure, like water.

چون به صورت آمد آن نور سره ** شد عدد چون سایه‌‌های کنگره‌‌

When that goodly Light took form, it became (many in) number like the shadows of a battlement.