گفت امیرا بنده فرمانم خموش ** ز آتشم آگه نه‌ای چندین مجوش

He replied, “O Amír, I am devoted to the (Divine) command. Be silent! Thou art not acquainted with my (inward) fire: do not boil (rage) so much!

بهر نان در خویش حرصی دیدمی ** اشکم نان‌خواه را بدریدمی

Had I found in myself any greed for bread, I would have ripped my bread craving belly.

هفت سال از سوز عشق جسم‌پز ** در بیابان خورده‌ام من برگ رز

During seven years, (inspired) by the ardour of Love that cooks the body, I have eaten (nothing but) vine-leaves in the wilderness,

تا ز برگ خشک و تازه خوردنم ** سبز گشته بود این رنگ تنم 2760

So that, from my eating withered and fresh leaves, this bodily colour of mine had turned green.”

تا تو باشی در حجاب بوالبشر ** سرسری در عاشقان کمتر نگر

So long as thou art in the veil of the Father of mankind (Adam), do not look slightingly on the lovers (of God).

زیرکان که مویها بشکافتند ** علم هیات را به جان دریافتند

The acute men who have split hairs (in profound investigation) and with (all) their soul have (studied and) apprehended the science of astronomy,

علم نارنجات و سحر و فلسفه ** گرچه نشناسند حق المعرفه

And the sciences of sorcery and magic and (natural) philosophy, and, though they do not know (these sciences) with real knowledge,

لیک کوشیدند تا امکان خود ** بر گذشتند از همه اقران خود

Yet have endeavoured (to know them) as far as they possibly can, and have surpassed all their rivals—

عشق غیرت کرد و زیشان در کشید ** شد چنین خورشید زیشان ناپدید 2765

Love was jealous and withdrew from them: such a (manifest) Sun became invisible to them.

نور چشمی کو به روز استاره دید ** آفتابی چون ازو رو در کشید

(I marvel), how did such a Sun withdraw its face from the light of an eye that observed a star in the daytime?