تا توانی پا منه اندر فراق ** أبغض الأشیاء عندی الطلاق‏

So far as thou canst, do not set foot in separation: of (all) things the most hateful to Me is divorce.

هر کسی را سیرتی بنهاده‏ام ** هر کسی را اصطلاحی داده‏ام‏

I have bestowed on every one a (special) way of acting: I have given to every one a (peculiar) form of expression.

در حق او مدح و در حق تو ذم ** در حق او شهد و در حق تو سم‏

In regard to him it is (worthy of) praise, and in regard to thee it is (worthy of) blame: in regard to him honey, and in regard to thee poison.

ما بری از پاک و ناپاکی همه ** از گران جانی و چالاکی همه‏ 1755

I am independent of all purity and impurity, of all slothfulness and alacrity (in worshipping Me).

من نکردم امر تا سودی کنم ** بلکه تا بر بندگان جودی کنم‏

I did not ordain (Divine worship) that I might make any profit; nay, but that I might do a kindness to (My) servants.

هندوان را اصطلاح هند مدح ** سندیان را اصطلاح سند مدح‏

In the Hindoos the idiom of Hind (India) is praiseworthy; in the Sindians the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy.

من نگردم پاک از تسبیحشان ** پاک هم ایشان شوند و در فشان‏

I am not sanctified by their glorification (of Me); ’tis they that become sanctified and pearl-scattering (pure and radiant).

ما زبان را ننگریم و قال را ** ما روان را بنگریم و حال را

I look not at the tongue and the speech; I look at the spirit and the state (of feeling).

ناظر قلبیم اگر خاشع بود ** گر چه گفت لفظ ناخاضع رود 1760

I gaze into the heart (to see) whether it be lowly, though the words uttered be not lowly,

ز انکه دل جوهر بود گفتن عرض ** پس طفیل آمد عرض جوهر غرض‏

Because the heart is the substance, speech (only) the accident; so the accident is subservient, the substance is the (real) object.