گر حشیش آب و هوایی می‌خورد ** معده‌ی حیوانش در پی می‌چرد

If the herbage is drinking pure water, (yet) afterwards an animal's belly will feed on it.

آکل و ماکول آمد آن گیاه ** هم‌چنین هر هستیی غیر اله 725

That grass is devouring and devoured: even so (is) everything that exists except God.

و هو یطعمکم و لا یطعم چو اوست ** نیست حق ماکول و آکل لحم و پوست

Since He is (the subject of the text) and He feedeth you and is not fed, God is not devouring and devoured, (like) flesh and skin.

آکل و ماکول کی ایمن بود ** ز آکلی که اندر کمین ساکن بود

How should that which is devouring and devoured be secure from a devourer who dwells in a (secret) hiding-place?

امن ماکولان جذوب ماتمست ** رو بدان درگاه کو لا یطعم است

The security of those who are (liable to be) devoured brings mourning in its train: go to the Portal of Him who is not fed.

هر خیالی را خیالی می‌خورد ** فکر آن فکر دگر را می‌چرد

Every phantasy is devouring another phantasy: (one) thought feeds on another thought.

تو نتانی کز خیالی وا رهی ** یا بخسپی که از آن بیرون جهی 730

Thou canst not be delivered from any phantasy or fall asleep so as to escape from it (altogether).

فکر زنبورست و آن خواب تو آب ** چون شوی بیدار باز آید ذباب

(Thy) thoughts are (like) hornets, and thy sleep is (like) the water (in which thou art plunged): when thou awakest, the flies (hornets) come back,

چند زنبور خیالی در پرد ** می‌کشد این سو و آن سو می‌برد

And many hornet-like phantasies fly in and (now) draw thee this way and (now) take thee that way.

کمترین آکلانست این خیال ** وآن دگرها را شناسد ذوالجلال

This (mental) phantasy is the least of the devourers: the Almighty knows (how great are) the others.