گر همی‏خواهی تو دفع شر نار ** آب رحمت بر دل آتش گمار

If you are wishing to remove the evil of the fire, direct the water of (Divine) mercy against the heart of the fire.

چشمه‏ی آن آب رحمت مومن است ** آب حیوان روح پاک محسن است‏

The true believer is the fountain of that water of mercy: the pure spirit of the well-doer is the Water of Life.

بس گریزان است نفس تو از او ** ز انکه تو از آتشی او آب جو

Hence your fleshly soul is fleeing mightily from him, because you are of fire, (while) he (is) the water of the stream.

ز آب آتش ز آن گریزان می‏شود ** کاتشش از آب ویران می‏شود 1255

Fire becomes fleeing from water for the reason that its fire (flame and heat) is ruined by water.

حس و فکر تو همه از آتش است ** حس شیخ و فکر او نور خوش است‏

Your sense and thought are wholly of the fire; the sense of the Shaykh (spiritual guide) and his thought are the beauteous Light.

آب نور او چو برآتش چکد ** چک چک از آتش بر آید بر جهد

When the water of his light trickles on the fire, chak chak (a gnashing sound) rises from the fire, and it leaps up (in fury).

چون کند چک چک تو گویش مرگ و درد ** تا شود این دوزخ نفس تو سرد

When it makes (the sound) chak chak, say you to it, “Death and woe (to thee),” in order that this hell, (which is) your fleshly soul, may become cold (quenched),

تا نسوزد او گلستان تو را ** تا نسوزد عدل و احسان تو را

So that it may not burn your rose-garden, so that it may not burn your justice and well doing.

بعد از آن چیزی که کاری بردهد ** لاله و نسرین و سیسنبردهد 1260

After that, anything that you sow will yield fruit (or flowers); it will yield anemones and wild roses and thyme.

باز پهنا می‏رویم از راه راست ** باز گرد ای خواجه راه ما کجاست‏

Once more we are going wide of the straight way: turn back, O master—where is our way?