ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان ** که بجنباند به کف پرده‌ی عیان

(Even) if it be hundredfold, who (what) is this tongue that it should move with its hand the veil of (mystical) clairvoyance?

وای بر وی گر بساید پرده را ** تیغ اللهی کند دستش جدا

Woe to it if it touch the veil! The Divine sword severs its hand.

دست چه بود خود سرش را بر کند ** آن سری کز جهل سرها می‌کند

What of the hand? It (the sword) rends off even its (the tongue's) head—the head that from ignorance puts forth many a head (of pride and self-conceit).

این به تقدیر سخن گفتم ترا ** ورنه خود دستش کجا و آن کجا 510

I have said this to you, speaking hypothetically; otherwise, indeed, how far is its hand from being able to do that!

خاله را خایه بدی خالو شدی ** این به تقدیر آمدست ار او بدی

Materterae si testiculi essent, ea avunculus esset: this is hypothetical—“if there were.” [(If) in regard to a maternal aunt there were testicles, she would would be a maternal uncle: this is hypothetical—“if there were.”]

از زبان تا چشم کو پاک از شکست ** صد هزاران ساله گویم اندکست

(If) I say that between the tongue and the eye that is free from doubt there is a hundred thousand years' (journey), ’tis little (in comparison with the reality).

هین مشو نومید نور از آسمان ** حق چو خواهد می‌رسد در یک زمان

Now come, do not despair! When God wills, light arrives from heaven in a single moment.

صد اثر در کانها از اختران ** می‌رساند قدرتش در هر زمان

At every instant His power causes a hundred influences from the stars to reach the (subterranean) mines.

اختر گردون ظلم را ناسخست ** اختر حق در صفاتش راسخست 515

The star (planet) of heaven deletes the darkness; the star of God is fixed in His Attributes.

چرخ پانصد ساله راه ای مستعین ** در اثر نزدیک آمد با زمین

O thou that seekest help, the celestial sphere, (at a distance) of five hundred years' journey, is in effect nigh unto the earth.