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.

پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه

(When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.

آنک کرد او در رخ خوبانت دنگ ** نور خورشیدست از شیشه‌ی سه رنگ

That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.

شیشه‌های رنگ رنگ آن نور را ** می‌نمایند این چنین رنگین بما

The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.

چون نماند شیشه‌های رنگ‌رنگ ** نور بی‌رنگت کند آنگاه دنگ 990

When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed.

خوی کن بی‌شیشه دیدن نور را ** تا چو شیشه بشکند نبود عمی

Make it thy habit to behold the Light without the glass, in order that when the glass is shattered there may not be blindness (in thee).