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ز انکه دل جوهر بود گفتن عرض ** پس طفیل آمد عرض جوهر غرض
- Because the heart is the substance, speech (only) the accident; so the accident is subservient, the substance is the (real) object.
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چند ازین الفاظ و اضمار و مجاز ** سوز خواهم سوز با آن سوز ساز
- How much (more) of these phrases and conceptions and metaphors? I want burning, burning: become friendly with that burning!
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آتشی از عشق در جان بر فروز ** سربهسر فکر و عبارت را بسوز
- Light up a fire of love in thy soul, burn thought and expression entirely (away)!
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موسیا آداب دانان دیگرند ** سوخته جان و روانان دیگرند
- O Moses, they that know the conventions are of one sort, they whose souls and spirits burn are of another sort.”
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عاشقان را هر نفس سوزیدنی ست ** بر ده ویران خراج و عشر نیست 1765
- To lovers there is a burning (which consumes them) at every moment: tax and tithe are not (imposed) on a ruined village.
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گر خطا گوید و را خاطی مگو ** گر بود پر خون شهید او را مشو
- If he (the lover) speak faultily, do not call him faulty; and if the martyr be bathed in blood, do not wash him.
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خون شهیدان را ز آب اولیتر است ** این خطا از صد ثواب اولیتر است
- For martyrs, blood is better than water: this fault (committed by him) is better than a hundred right actions (of another).
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در درون کعبه رسم قبله نیست ** چه غم ار غواص را پاچیله نیست
- Within the Ka‘ba the rule of the qibla does not exist: what matter if the diver has no snow-shoes?
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تو ز سر مستان قلاووزی مجو ** جامه چاکان را چه فرمایی رفو
- Do not seek guidance from the drunken: why dost thou order those whose garments are rent in pieces to mend them?
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ملت عشق از همه دینها جداست ** عاشقان را ملت و مذهب خداست 1770
- The religion of Love is apart from all religions: for lovers, the (only) religion and creed is—God.
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لعل را گر مهر نبود باک نیست ** عشق در دریای غم غمناک نیست
- If the ruby have not a seal (graven on it), ’tis no harm: Love in the sea of sorrow is not sorrowful.
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وحی آمدن موسی را علیه السلام در عذر آن شبان
- How the (Divine) revelation came to Moses, on whom be peace, excusing that shepherd.
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بعد از آن در سر موسی حق نهفت ** رازهایی کان نمیآید به گفت
- After that, God spake secretly in the inmost heart of Moses mysteries which cannot be spoken.
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بر دل موسی سخنها ریختند ** دیدن و گفتن به هم آمیختند
- Words were poured upon his heart: vision and speech were mingled together.
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چند بیخود گشت و چند آمد به خود ** چند پرید از ازل سوی ابد
- How oft did he become beside himself and how oft return to himself! How oft did he fly from eternity to everlastingness!
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بعد از این گر شرح گویم ابلهی است ** ز انکه شرح این ورای آگهی است 1775
- If I should unfold (his tale) after this, ’tis foolishness (in me), because the explanation of this is beyond (our) understanding;
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ور بگویم عقلها را بر کند ** ور نویسم بس قلمها بشکند
- And if I should speak (thereof), ’twould root up (men's) minds; and if I should write (thereof), ’twould shatter many pens.
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چون که موسی این عتاب از حق شنید ** در بیابان در پی چوپان دوید
- When Moses heard these reproaches from God, he ran into the desert in quest of the shepherd.
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بر نشان پای آن سر گشته راند ** گرد از پردهی بیابان بر فشاند
- He pushed on over the footprints of the bewildered man, he scattered dust from the skirt of the desert.
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گام پای مردم شوریده خود ** هم ز گام دیگران پیدا بود
- The footstep of a man distraught is, in truth, distinct from the footsteps of others:
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یک قدم چون رخ ز بالا تا نشیب ** یک قدم چون پیل رفته بر وریب 1780
- (At) one step, (he moves) like the rook (straight) from top to bottom (of the chessboard); (at) one step he goes crossways, like the bishop;
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گاه چون موجی بر افرازان علم ** گاه چون ماهی روانه بر شکم
- Now lifting his crest like a wave; now going on his belly like a fish;
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گاه بر خاکی نبشته حال خود ** همچو رمالی که رملی بر زند
- Now writing (a description of) his state on some dust, like a geomancer who takes an omen by drawing lines (on earth or sand).
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عاقبت دریافت او را و بدید ** گفت مژده ده که دستوری رسید
- At last he (Moses) overtook and beheld him; the giver of glad news said, “Permission has come (from God).
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هیچ آدابی و ترتیبی مجو ** هر چه میخواهد دل تنگت بگو
- Do not seek any rules or method (of worship); say whatsoever your distressful heart desires.
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کفر تو دین است و دینت نور جان ** ایمنی و ز تو جهانی در امان 1785
- Your blasphemy is (the true) religion, and your religion is the light of the spirit: you are saved, and through you a (whole) world is in salvation.