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  • زینت او از برای دیگران ** باز کرده بیهده چشم و دهان
  • Its beauty is for others: its eyes and mouth are open in vain.

  • ای تو در بیگار خود را باخته ** دیگران را تو ز خود نشناخته
  • O you who have devoted yourself (to contending with others) in strife, you have not known (discriminated) others from your self.

  • تو به هر صورت که آیی بیستی ** که منم این والله آن تو نیستی
  • You stop at every form that you come to, saying, “I am this.” By God, you are not that (form).

  • یک زمان تنها بمانی تو ز خلق ** در غم و اندیشه مانی تا به حلق 805
  • (If) you are left alone by people for a single moment, you remain (plunged) up to the throat in grief and anxiety.

  • این تو کی باشی که تو آن اوحدی ** که خوش و زیبا و سرمست خودی
  • How are you this (form)? You are that Unique One, for (in reality) you are fair and lovely and intoxicated with yourself.

  • مرغ خویشی صید خویشی دام خویش ** صدر خویشی فرش خویشی بام خویش
  • You are your own bird your own prey, and your own snare; you are your own seat of honour, your own floor, and your own root.

  • جوهر آن باشد که قایم با خودست ** آن عرض باشد که فرع او شدست
  • The substance is that which subsists in itself; the accident is that which has become a derivative of it (of the substance).

  • گر تو آدم‌زاده‌ای چون او نشین ** جمله ذریات را در خود ببین
  • If you are born of Adam, sit like him and behold all his progeny in yourself

  • چیست اندر خم که اندر نهر نیست ** چیست اندر خانه که اندر شهر نیست 810
  • What is in the jar that is not (also) in the river? What is in the house that is not (also) in the city?

  • این جهان خمست و دل چون جوی آب ** این جهان حجره‌ست و دل شهر عجاب
  • This world is the jar, and the heart (spirit) is like the river; this world is the chamber, and the heart is the wonderful city.

  • پیدا کردن سلیمان علیه‌السلام کی مرا خالصا لامر الله جهدست در ایمان تو یک ذره غرضی نیست مرا نه در نفس تو و حسن تو و نه در ملک تو خود بینی چون چشم جان باز شود به نورالله
  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, explained (to Bilqís), saying, "My labour in (bringing about) thy (conversion to the) Faith is purely for God’s sake: I have not one atom of self-interest, either as regards thy person or thy beauty or thy kingdom. Thou thyself wilt see (this) when the eye of thy spirit is opened by the light of God."