ماهیانیم و تو دریای حیات ** زنده‌ایم از لطفت ای نیکو صفات

We are the fishes, and Thou the Sea of Life: we live by Thy favour, O Thou whose attributes are excellent.

تو نگنجی در کنار فکرتی ** نی به معلولی قرین چون علتی

Thou art not contained in the bosom of any thought, nor art Thou joined with the effect, as a cause.

پیش ازین طوفان و بعد این مرا ** تو مخاطب بوده‌ای در ماجرا

Before this Flood and after it, Thou hast been the object of my address in (every) colloquy.

با تو می‌گفتم نه با ایشان سخن ** ای سخن‌بخش نو و آن کهن

I was speaking with Thee, not with them, O Thou that art the Giver of speech (both) newly and of old.

نه که عاشق روز و شب گوید سخن ** گاه با اطلال و گاهی با دمن 1345

Is it not the case that the lover, day and night, converses now with the ruins (of the beloved's abode), now with the traces (of her habitation)?

روی با اطلال کرده ظاهرا ** او کرا می‌گوید آن مدحت کرا

To outward seeming, he has turned his face towards the ruins, (but) to whom is he (really) saying that song of praise, to whom?

شکر طوفان را کنون بگماشتی ** واسطه‌ی اطلال را بر داشتی

Thanks (be to Thee)! Now Thou hast let loose the Flood and removed the ruins which stood between (me and Thee).

زانک اطلال لیم و بد بدند ** نه ندایی نه صدایی می‌زدند

(I thank Thee) because they were vile and evil ruins, uttering neither a cry nor an echo.

من چنان اطلال خواهم در خطاب ** کز صدا چون کوه واگوید جواب

I desire such ruins to speak with as answer back, like the mountain, by an echo,

تا مثنا بشنوم من نام تو ** عاشقم برنام جان آرام تو 1350

So that I may hear Thy name redoubled, (for) I am in love with Thy soul-soothing name.