پس ز من زایید در معنی پدر ** پس ز میوه زاد در معنی شجر
Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”
اول فکر آخر آمد در عمل ** خاصه فکری کو بود وصف ازل530
The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal.
حاصل اندر یک زمان از آسمان ** می‌رود می‌آید ایدر کاروان
To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.
نیست بر این کاروان این ره دراز ** کی مفازه زفت آید با مفاز
This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?
دل به کعبه می‌رود در هر زمان ** جسم طبع دل بگیرد ز امتنان
The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.
این دراز و کوتهی مر جسم راست ** چه دراز و کوته آنجا که خداست
This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?
چون خدا مر جسم را تبدیل کرد ** رفتنش بی‌فرسخ و بی‌میل کرد535
When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile.
صد امیدست این زمان بردار گام ** عاشقانه ای فتی خل الکلام
There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.
گرچه پله‌ی چشم بر هم می‌زنی ** در سفینه خفته‌ای ره می‌کنی
Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).
تفسیر این حدیث کی مثل امتی کمثل سفینة نوح من تمسک بها نجا و من تخلف عنها غرق
Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."
بهر این فرمود پیغامبر که من ** هم‌چو کشتی‌ام به طوفان زمن
On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.