لیک بد مقصودش از بانگ رباب ** هم‌چو مشتاقان خیال آن خطاب

But his object in (listening to) the sound of the rebeck was, like (that of) ardent lovers (of God), (to bring into his mind) the phantasy of that (Divine) allocution;

ناله‌ی سرنا و تهدید دهل ** چیزکی ماند بدان ناقور کل

(For) the shrill noise of the clarion and the menace of the drum somewhat resemble that universal trumpet.

پس حکیمان گفته‌اند این لحنها ** از دوار چرخ بگرفتیم ما

Hence philosophers have said that we received these harmonies from the revolution of the (celestial) sphere,

بانگ گردشهای چرخست این که خلق ** می‌سرایندش به طنبور و به حلق

(And that) this (melody) which people sing with pandore and throat is the sound of the revolutions of the sphere;

مومنان گویند که آثار بهشت ** نغز گردانید هر آواز زشت 735

(But) the true believers say that the influences of Paradise made every unpleasant sound to be beautiful.

ما همه اجزای آدم بوده‌ایم ** در بهشت آن لحنها بشنوده‌ایم

We all have been parts of Adam, we have heard those melodies in Paradise.

گرچه بر ما ریخت آب و گل شکی ** یادمان آمد از آنها چیزکی

Although the water and earth (of our bodies) have caused a doubt to fall upon us, something of those (melodies) comes (back) to our memory;

لیک چون آمیخت با خاک کرب ** کی دهند این زیر و آن بم آن طرب

But since it is mingled with the earth of sorrow, how should this treble and bass give (us) the same delight?

آب چون آمیخت با بول و کمیز ** گشت ز آمیزش مزاجش تلخ و تیز

When water is mingled with urine and stalings, its temperament is made bitter and acid by the commixture.

چیزکی از آب هستش در جسد ** بول گیرش آتشی را می‌کشد 740

There is a small quantity of water in his (a man's) body: suppose it is urine, (yet) it will extinguish a fire.