دایه عاریه بود روزی سه چار ** مادرا ما را تو گیر اندر کنار

The nurse is borrowed for three or four days: do thou, O Mother, take us into thy bosom!

پر من ابرست و پرده‌ست و کثیف ** ز انعکاس لطف حق شد او لطیف

My feathers are (like) the cloud and are a veil and gross: (only) by the reflexion of God's loveliness are they made lovely.

بر کنم پر را و حسنش را ز راه ** تا ببینم حسن مه را هم ز ماه 700

I will pluck my feathers and their beauty from the Way (to God), that I may behold the Moon's beauty (by immediate illumination) from the Moon.

من نخواهم دایه مادر خوشترست ** موسی‌ام من دایه‌ی من مادرست

I do not want the nurse; (my) Mother is fairer. I am (like) Moses: (my) Mother (herself) is my nurse.

من نخواهم لطف مه از واسطه ** که هلاک قوم شد این رابطه

I do not want (to enjoy) the loveliness of the Moon through an intermediary, for this link is perdition to the people;

یا مگر ابری شود فانی راه ** تا نگردد او حجاب روی ماه

Unless (the intermediary be) a cloud (that) becomes naughted in the Way (to God) in order that it may not be a veil to the face of the Moon.

صورتش بنماید او در وصف لا ** هم‌چو جسم انبیا و اولیا

In the aspect of lá (self-negation) it (such a cloud) displays His (the Moon's) form, like the bodies of the prophets and saints.

آنچنان ابری نباشد پرده‌بند ** پرده‌در باشد به معنی سودمند 705

Such a cloud is not veil-tying; it is in reality veil-tearing (and) salutary.

آن‌چنان که اندر صباح روشنی ** قطره می‌بارید و بالا ابر نی

’Tis as when, on a bright morning, drops of rain were falling though there was no cloud above (in the sky).

معجزه‌ی پیغامبری بود آن سقا ** گشته ابر از محو هم‌رنگ سما

That water-skin was a miracle of the Prophet: from self-effacement the cloud (which replenished it) had become of the same colour as the sky.