پاک می‌بازد نباشد مزدجو ** آنچنان که پاک می‌گیرد ز هو

پاک می‌بازد نباشد مزدجو ** آنچنان که پاک می‌گیرد ز هو 1970

He gambles (everything) clean away, he seeks no reward, even as he receives (everything) clean (as a free gift) from Him (God).

می‌دهد حق هستیش بی‌علتی ** می‌سپارد باز بی‌علت فتی

God gives him his existence without any cause: the devoted (lover) yields it up again without cause;

که فتوت دادن بی علتست ** پاک‌بازی خارج هر ملتست

For devotion consists in giving without cause: gambling (one's self) clean away (pure self-sacrifice) is outside of (transcends) every religion.

زانک ملت فضل جوید یا خلاص ** پاک بازانند قربانان خاص

Forasmuch as religion seeks (Divine) grace or salvation, those who gamble (everything) clean away are (God's) chosen favourites.

نی خدا را امتحانی می‌کنند ** نی در سود و زیانی می‌زنند

Neither do they put God to any test, nor do they knock at the door of any profit or loss.

باز دادن شاه گنج‌نامه را به آن فقیر کی بگیر ما از سر این برخاستیم

How the king gave back the treasure-scroll to the fakir, saying, “Take it: we are quit of it.”

چونک رقعه‌ی گنج پر آشوب را ** شه مسلم داشت آن مکروب را 1975

When the king handed over to that grief-stricken man the treasure-scroll (which was) fraught with commotion,

گشت آمن او ز خصمان و ز نیش ** رفت و می‌پیچید در سودای خویش

He (the fakir) became secure from rivals and annoyance, (so) he went and wrapped himself in his melancholy madness.

یار کرد او عشق درداندیش را ** کلب لیسد خویش ریش خویش را

He made sad-thoughted Love his friend: a dog licks his own sore himself.

عشق را در پیچش خود یار نیست ** محرمش در ده یکی دیار نیست

Love hath none to help him in his torment: there is not in the village one inhabitant familiar with him.

نیست از عاشق کسی دیوانه‌تر ** عقل از سودای او کورست و کر

None is more mad than the lover, (yet) Reason is blind and deaf to his melancholia,