آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشته‏ای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشته‏ای‏

That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?

صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست‏ 705

Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is.

آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست‏

If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).

چون وفا آن عشق افزون می‏کند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون می‏کند

Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?

پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت‏

The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.

بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم‏

Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.

ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش‏ 710

You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form,

پرتو عقل است آن بر حس تو ** عاریت میدان ذهب بر مس تو

That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.

چون زر اندود است خوبی در بشر ** ور نه چون شد شاهد تو پیر خر

Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?

چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد ** کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد

She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.