نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود

نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود 1045

You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving.

یک فسانه راست آمد یا دروغ ** تا دهد مر راستیها را فروغ‏

Here is a tale, (be it) true or false, to illustrate (these) truths.

حسد کردن حشم بر غلام خاص

How the (King's) retainers envied the favourite slave.

پادشاهی بنده‏ای را از کرم ** بر گزیده بود بر جمله حشم‏

A King had, of his grace, preferred a certain slave above all his retinue.

جامگی او وظیفه‏ی چل امیر ** ده یک قدرش ندیدی صد وزیر

His allowance was the stipend of forty Amírs; a hundred Viziers would not see (receive) a tenth of its amount.

از کمال طالع و اقبال و بخت ** او ایازی بود و شه محمود وقت‏

Through the perfection of (his) natal star and prosperity and fortune he was an Ayáz, while the King was the Mahmúd of the time.

روح او با روح شه در اصل خویش ** پیش از این تن بوده هم پیوند و خویش‏ 1050

His spirit in its origin, before (the creation of) this body, was near-related and akin to the King's spirit.

کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست‏

(Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.

کار عارف راست کاو نه احول است ** چشم او بر کشتهای اول است‏

That which matters belongs to the knower (of God), for he is not squinting: his eye is (fixed) upon the things first sown.

آن چه گندم کاشتندش و آن چه جو ** چشم او آن جاست روز و شب گرو

That which was sown as wheat (good) or as barley (relatively evil)—day and night his eye is fastened on that place (where it was sown).

آنچ آبست است شب جز آن نزاد ** حیله‏ها و مکرها باد است باد

Night gave birth to nothing but what she was pregnant withal: designs and plots are wind, (empty) wind.