زانک در باغی و در جویی پرد ** هر که از سر صحف بویی برد

Because every one who catches a scent of the mystery of the (Divine) scriptures flies into an orchard with a running brook.

یا تو پنداری که روی اولیا ** آنچنان که هست می‌بینیم ما

Or dost thou suppose that we see the face of the Saints as it is (in reality)?

در تعجب مانده پیغامبر از آن ** چون نمی‌بینند رویم مومنان

Hence the Prophet remained in astonishment, saying, “How are the true believers not seeing my face?

چون نمی‌بینند نور روم خلق ** که سبق بردست بر خورشید شرق 3475

How are the people not seeing the light of my face, which has borne away the prize from the orient sun?

ور همی‌بینند این حیرت چراست ** تا که وحی آمد که آن رو در خفاست

And if they are seeing (it), wherefore is this perplexity?”— until a revelation came (to him from God), saying, “That face is in concealment.

سوی تو ماهست و سوی خلق ابر ** تا نبیند رایگان روی تو گبر

In relation to thee it is the moon, and in relation to the people it is the cloud, in order that the infidel may not see thy face for nothing.

سوی تو دانه‌ست و سوی خلق دام ** تا ننوشد زین شراب خاص عام

In relation to thee it is the bait, and in relation to the people it is the trap, in order that the vulgar may not drink of this chosen wine.”

گفت یزدان که تراهم ینظرون ** نقش حمامند هم لا یبصرون

God said, “Thou seest them looking,” (but) they are (like) the pictures in a bathhouse: they do not see.

می‌نماید صورت ای صورت‌پرست ** که آن دو چشم مرده‌ی او ناظرست 3480

The form appears, O worshipper of form, as though its two dead eyes were looking.

پیش چشم نقش می‌آری ادب ** کو چرا پاسم نمی‌دارد عجب

Thou art showing reverence before the eye of the image, saying, “I wonder why it pays no regard to me.