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  • 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.

  • دل محیطست اندرین خطه‌ی وجود ** زر همی‌افشاند از احسان و جود
  • The (perfect) heart is encompassing (the whole of) this realm of existence and scattering gold in beneficence and bounty.

  • از سلام حق سلامیها نثار ** می‌کند بر اهل عالم اختیار
  • It chooses to lavish blessings derived from the Blessedness of God upon the people of the world.

  • هر که را دامن درستست و معد ** آن نثار دل بر آنکس می‌رسد
  • Whosoever's skirt is right and ready, the largesse of the heart comes to that person.

  • دامن تو آن نیازست و حضور ** هین منه در دامن آن سنگ فجور 2275
  • Your skirt (to catch that largesse) is supplication and presence (with God): beware, do not put in your skirt the stone of iniquity,

  • تا ندرد دامنت زان سنگها ** تا بدانی نقد را از رنگها
  • In order that your skirt may not be torn by those stones and that you may distinguish the sterling coin (of truth) from the colours (of falsehood).