و آن چه لله می‌‌کنم تقلید نیست ** نیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست‌‌

And that which I am doing for God's sake is not (done in) conformity, it is not fancy and opinion, it is naught but intuition.

ز اجتهاد و از تحری رسته‌‌ام ** آستین بر دامن حق بسته‌‌ام‌‌

I have been freed from effort and search, I have tied my sleeve to the skirt of God.

گر همی‌‌پرم همی‌‌بینم مطار ** ور همی‌‌گردم همی‌‌بینم مدار

If I am flying, I behold the place to which I soar; and if I am circling, I behold the axis on which I revolve;

ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجا ** ماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا

And if I am dragging a burden, I know whither: I am the moon, and the Sun is in front of me as the guide.”

بیش از این با خلق گفتن روی نیست ** بحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست‌‌ 3810

There is no means (possibility) of communicating more than this to the people: in the river there is no room for the Sea.

پست می‌‌گویم به اندازه‌‌ی عقول ** عیب نبود این بود کار رسول‌‌

I speak low according to the measure of (their) understandings: ’tis no fault, this is the practice of the Prophet.

از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو

“I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”

در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا

In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.

گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه‌‌

(Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.

بنده‌‌ی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق‌‌ 3815

In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude,

کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر

For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.

بنده‌‌ی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص‌‌

The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.

در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست‌‌

He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.

در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن‌‌

He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.

بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود 3820

I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed.

این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است‌‌

(If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.

خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست‌‌

They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.

چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست‌‌

Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).

گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر

(The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.

چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ 3825

“Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in!

اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق‌‌

Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.

اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر

Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.

رسته‌‌ای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو

Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).

تو منی و من توام ای محتشم ** تو علی بودی علی را چون کشم‌‌

Thou art I and I am thou, O illustrious one: thou wert ‘Alí— how should I kill ‘Alí?

معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتی ** آسمان پیموده‌‌ای در ساعتی‌‌ 3830

Thou hast committed a sin better than any act of piety, thou hast traversed Heaven in a single moment.”