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  • آب ما محبوس گل ماندست هین ** بحر رحمت جذب کن ما را ز طین
  • (But) our water has remained imprisoned in earth. Hark, O Sea of Mercy, draw us out of the clay!

  • بحر گوید من ترا در خود کشم ** لیک می‌لافی که من آب خوشم
  • The Sea says, “I draw thee into myself, but thou art vainly pretending to be the sweet water.

  • لاف تو محروم می‌دارد ترا ** ترک آن پنداشت کن در من درآ
  • Thy vain pretence is keeping thee deprived of fortune: abandon that (idle) fancy and enter into me.”

  • آب گل خواهد که در دریا رود ** گل گرفته پای آب و می‌کشد
  • The water in the earth (of the body) desires to go into the Sea, (but) the earth has seized the water's foot and is dragging (it back).

  • گر رهاند پای خود از دست گل ** گل بماند خشک و او شد مستقل 2255
  • If it release its foot from the hand of the earth, the earth will be left dry, and it (the water) becomes absolutely free.

  • آن کشیدن چیست از گل آب را ** جذب تو نقل و شراب ناب را
  • What is that drawing back of the water by the earth? (It is) your drawing (towards you) the dessert and unmixed wine (of sensuality).

  • همچنین هر شهوتی اندر جهان ** خواه مال و خواه جاه و خواه نان
  • Even so every lust in the world, whether it be (for) riches or power or bread—

  • هر یکی زینها ترا مستی کند ** چون نیابی آن خمارت می‌زند
  • Each of these things produces an intoxication (ardent desire) in you, and when you gain it not, it inflicts a headache upon you.

  • این خمار غم دلیل آن شدست ** که بدان مفقود مستی‌ات بدست
  • This headache of grief has become a proof that your intoxication was caused by that missed object (of desire).

  • جز به اندازه‌ی ضرورت زین مگیر ** تا نگردد غالب و بر تو امیر 2260
  • Do not partake of these (objects) but according to the measure of (your) necessity, lest they grow predominant and become rulers over you.