وآنک آنش نیست باغ بی‌ثمر ** که خزانش می‌کند زیر و زبر

And he who hath not that (Light) is an orchard without fruit, which the autumn brings to ruin.

گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه ** زرد و بی‌مغز آمده چون تل کاه

The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.

تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا ** که ازو این حله‌ها گردد جدا

O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.

خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن 980

“It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!”

شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست ** عالمش می‌راند از خود جرم چیست

The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?

جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست

“The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.

واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانه‌چین

We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;

تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود

That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”

آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر 985

(All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence.

باز می‌گردند چون استارها ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها

They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.