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  • آب جیحون را اگر نتوان کشید  ** هم ز قدر تشنگی نتوان برید 
  • Still, if it is impossible to drain (drink) the Oxus, one cannot deny one's self as much (water) as will slake thirst.

  • گر شدی عطشان بحر معنوی  ** فرجه‌ای کن در جزیره‌ی مثنوی 
  • If you are thirsting for the spiritual Ocean, make a breach in the island of the Mathnawí.

  • فرجه کن چندانک اندر هر نفس  ** مثنوی را معنوی بینی و بس 
  • Make such a great breach that at every moment you will see the Mathnawi to be only spiritual.

  • باد که را ز آب جو چون وا کند  ** آب یک‌رنگی خود پیدا کند 
  • When the wind sweeps away the straw from the (surface of) the river-water, the water displays its unicolouredness.

  • شاخهای تازه‌ی مرجان ببین  ** میوه‌های رسته ز آب جان ببین  70
  • Behold the fresh branches of coral, behold the fruits grown from the water of the spirit!

  • چون ز حرف و صوت و دم یکتا شود  ** آن همه بگذارد و دریا شود 
  • When it (the Mathnawí) is made single (and denuded) of words and sounds and breaths, it leaves all that (behind) and becomes the (spiritual) Ocean.

  • حرف‌گو و حرف‌نوش و حرفها  ** هر سه جان گردند اندر انتها 
  • The speaker of the word and the hearer of the word and the words (themselves)—all three become spirit in the end.

  • نان‌دهنده و نان‌ستان و نان‌پاک  ** ساده گردند از صور گردند خاک 
  • The bread-giver and the bread-receiver and the wholesome bread become single (denuded) of their forms and are turned into earth,

  • لیک معنیشان بود در سه مقام  ** در مراتب هم ممیز هم مدام 
  • But their reality, in the three (above-mentioned) categories, is both differentiated in (these) grades and permanent.

  • خاک شد صورت ولی معنی نشد  ** هر که گوید شد تو گویش نه نشد  75
  • In appearance they have become earth, in reality they have not; if any one say that they have, say to him, “No, they have not.”