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  • آنچنانک آب در گل سر کشد ** که منم آب و چرا جویم مدد
  • That is as though the water in the earth should scornfully refuse, saying, “I am the water, and why should I seek aid?”

  • دل تو این آلوده را پنداشتی ** لاجرم دل ز اهل دل برداشتی
  • You fancied this polluted (heart) was the (pure) heart; consequently you averted your heart from those possessed of (purified) hearts.

  • خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین
  • Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?

  • لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست 2265
  • The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.

  • پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایه‌ی دل چون بود دل را غرض
  • Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?

  • آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه
  • Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),

  • یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** می‌پرستدشان برای گفت و گو
  • Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?

  • دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور
  • The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?

  • نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام 2270
  • The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which?

  • ریزه‌ی دل را بهل دل را بجو ** تا شود آن ریزه چون کوهی ازو
  • Leave (what is only) a fragment of the heart and seek the (perfect) heart, in order that by means of it that fragment may become as a mountain.