خام شوخی که رهانیدش مدام ** از خمار صد هزاران زشت خام

The half-baked saucy fellow, whom the wine (of Love) has relieved from the surfeit of intoxication with a hundred thousand wicked half-baked (persons like himself),

عاقبت او پخته و استاد شد ** جست از رق جهان و آزاد شد

Finally becomes mature and adept: he escapes from enslavement to this world and is made free.

از شراب لایزالی گشت مست ** شد ممیز از خلایق باز رست

He is made drunken with the everlasting wine, he becomes (spiritually) discerning, and is delivered from created beings,

ز اعتقاد سست پر تقلیدشان ** وز خیال دیده‌ی بی‌دیدشان

From their weak conventional faith and from the illusions of their unseeing eyes.

ای عجب چه فن زند ادراکشان ** پیش جزر و مد بحر بی‌نشان 2770

Oh, what device can their mental perception employ, I wonder, against the ebb and flow of the trackless Sea?

زان بیابان این عمارت‌ها رسید ** ملک و شاهی و وزارتها رسید

From that Desert came (all) these signs of cultivation and prosperity; (thence) came (all) empires and kingships and vizierates.

زان بیابان عدم مشتاق شوق ** می‌رسند اندر شهادت جوق جوق

Yearning with desire they (phenomenal ideas) come in troops from the Desert of Non-existence into the visible (material) world.

کاروان بر کاروان زین بادیه ** می‌رسد در هر مسا و غادیه

Caravan on caravan, they arrive from this Desert every evening and morning.

آید و گیرد وثاق ما گرو ** که رسیدم نوبت ما شد تو رو

They come and seize our houses in distraint, (each one) saying, “I have arrived, ’tis my turn, do thou begone!”

چون پسر چشم خرد را بر گشاد ** زود بابا رخت بر گردون نهاد 2775

When the son has opened the eye of reason (attained to years of discretion), the father at once puts his (own) baggage in the cart.