اندر آن ویران که آن معروف نیست ** از برای حفظ گنجینه‌ی زریست

A treasure of gold is (hidden), for safety's sake, in a desolate spot that is not well-known.

موضع معروف کی بنهند گنج ** زین قبل آمد فرج در زیر رنج

How should they deposit the treasure in a well-known place? On this account it is said, “Joy is (hidden) beneath sorrow.”

خاطر آرد بس شکال اینجا ولیک ** بسکلد اشکال را استور نیک 1135

Here the mind may bring (suggest) many difficulties, but a good beast will break the tether.

هست عشقش آتشی اشکال‌سوز ** هر خیالی را بروبد نور روز

His (God's) love is a fire that consumes difficulties: the daylight sweeps away every phantom.

هم از آن سو جو جواب ای مرتضا ** کین سال آمد از آن سو مر ترا

O thou with whom He is pleased, seek the answer from the same quarter from which this question came to thee.

گوشه‌ی بی گوشه‌ی دل شه‌رهیست ** تاب لا شرقی و لا غرب از مهیست

The cornerless corner of the heart is a King's highway: the radiance that is neither of the east nor of the west is (derived) from a Moon.

تو ازین سو و از آن سو چون گدا ** ای که معنی چه می‌جویی صدا

Why on this side and on that, like a beggar, O mountain of Reality, art thou seeking the echo?

هم از آن سو جو که وقت درد تو ** می‌شوی در ذکر یا ربی دوتو 1140

Seek (the answer) from the same quarter to which, in the hour of pain, thou bendest low, crying repeatedly, “O my Lord!”

وقت درد و مرگ آن سو می‌نمی ** چونک دردت رفت چونی اعجمی

In the hour of pain and death thou turnest in that direction: how, when thy pain is gone, art thou ignorant?

وقت محنت گشته‌ای الله گو ** چونک محنت رفت گویی راه کو

At the time of tribulation thou hast called unto God, (but) when the tribulation is gone, thou sayest, “Where is the way?”