چون کراهت رفت آن خود مرگ نیست ** صورت مرگست و نقلان کردنیست

When dislike is gone, verily ‘tis not death: ‘tis (only) the semblance of death, and (in reality) ‘tis a migration.

چون کراهت رفت مردن نفع شد ** پس درست آید که مردن دفع شد

When dislike is gone, dying becomes advantageous; hence it comes true that death is repelled.

دوست حقست و کسی کش گفت او ** که توی آن من و من آن تو

The beloved is God and the person to whom He hath said, “Thou art Mine and I am thine.”

گوش دار اکنون که عاشق می‌رسد ** بسته عشق او را به حبل من مسد 4615

Now listen, for the lover is coming whom Love bound with a cord of palm-fibre.

چون بدید او چهره‌ی صدر جهان ** گوییا پریدش از تن مرغ جان

When he beheld the countenance of the Sadr-i Jahán, you might say the bird, his spirit, flew out of his body.

همچو چوب خشک افتاد آن تنش ** سرد شد از فرق جان تا ناخنش

His body fell like dry wood: his vital spirit became cold from the crown of his head to his toes.

هرچه کردند از بخور و از گلاب ** نه بجنبید و نه آمد در خطاب

Whatsoever they applied of incense and rose-water, he neither stirred nor spoke.

شاه چون دید آن مزعفر روی او ** پس فرود آمد ز مرکب سوی او

When the King saw his saffron-coloured (pallid) face, he dismounted from his steed (and came) towards him.

گفت عاشق دوست می‌جوید بتفت ** چونک معشوق آمد آن عاشق برفت 4620

He said, “The lover hotly seeks the beloved: when the beloved comes, the lover is gone.”

عاشق حقی و حق آنست کو ** چون بیاید نبود از تو تای مو

Thou art a lover of God, and God is such that when He comes there is not a single hair of thee (remaining).