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با جمال جان چوشد همکاسهای ** باشدش ز اخبار و دانش تاسهای
- When he has become a boon-companion to the beauty of the Soul, he will have a disgust of traditional learning and knowledge.
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دید بردانش بود غالب فرا ** زان همی دنیا بچربد عامه را
- Vision is superior to knowledge: hence the present world prevails (over the next world) in the view of the vulgar,
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زانک دنیا را همیبینند عین ** وآن جهانی را همیدانند دین
- Because they regard this world as ready money, while they deem what concerns that (other) world to be (like) a debt.
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رو نهادن آن بندهی عاشق سوی بخارا
- How that loving servant turned his face towards Bukhárá.
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رو نهاد آن عاشق خونابهریز ** دلطپان سوی بخارا گرم و تیز 3860
- With throbbing heart the lover, who shed tears mingled with blood, set out for Bukhárá in hot haste.
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ریگ آمون پیش او همچون حریر ** آب جیحون پیش او چون آبگیر
- The sands of Ámún seemed to him like silk, the river Oxus seemed to him like a pond.
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آن بیابان پیش او چون گلستان ** میفتاد از خنده او چون گلستان
- To him that wilderness was like a rose-garden: he was falling on his back from laughter, like the (full-blown) rose.
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در سمرقندست قند اما لبش ** از بخارا یافت و آن شد مذهبش
- The (material) candy is in Samarcand; but his lip got it from “Bukhárá,” and that (spiritual candy) became his creed.
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ای بخارا عقلافزا بودهای ** لیکن ازمن عقل و دین بربودهای
- “O Bukhárá, thou hast increased understanding (in others) but thou hast robbed me of understanding and religion.
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بدر میجویم از آنم چون هلال ** صدر میجویم درین صف نعال 3865
- I am seeking the Full Moon: hence I am (thin) as the new moon. I am seeking the Sadr (Prince) in this ‘shoe-row’ (vestibule).”
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چون سواد آن بخارا را بدید ** در سواد غم بیاضی شد پدید
- When he described that “Bukhárá” looming black (in the distance), a whiteness (a mystic illumination) appeared in the blackness of his grief.
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ساعتی افتاد بیهوش و دراز ** عقل او پرید در بستان راز
- He fell (and lay) awhile senseless and outstretched: his reason flew into the garden of the mystery.
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بر سر و رویش گلابی میزدند ** از گلاب عشق او غافل بدند
- They were sprinkling rose-water on his head and face; they were unaware of the rose-water of his love.
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او گلستانی نهانی دیده بود ** غارت عشقش ز خود ببریده بود
- He had beheld a hidden rose-garden: the raiding foray of Love had cut him off from himself.
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تو فسرده درخور این دم نهای ** با شکر مقرون نهای گرچه نیی 3870
- Thou, frozen (in spirit), art not worthy of this (inspiring) breath (of love): though thou art a reed (cane), thou art not associated with sugar.
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رخت عقلت با توست و عاقلی ** کز جنودا لم تروها غافلی
- The baggage of intellect is with thee, and thou art (still) possessed of thy wits, for thou art unaware of armies which ye did not see.
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در آمدن آن عاشق لاابالی در بخارا وتحذیر کردن دوستان او را از پیداشدن
- How the reckless lover entered Bukhárá, and how his friends deterred him from showing himself.
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اندر آمد در بخارا شادمان ** پیش معشوق خود و دارالامان
- Joyously he entered Bukhárá near his beloved and (him who was) the abode of (his) security,
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همچو آن مستی که پرد بر اثیر ** مه کنارش گیرد و گوید که گیر
- Like the man intoxicated (with love) who (in imagination) flies to heaven: the Moon embraces him and says, “Embrace (me)!”
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هرکه دیدش در بخارا گفت خیز ** پیش از پیدا شدن منشین گریز
- Every one that saw him in Bukhárá said (to him), “Arise (and go) before showing thyself! Do not sit (still)! Flee!
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که ترا میجوید آن شه خشمگین ** تا کشد از جان تو ده ساله کین 3875
- For that Prince is seeking thee in anger, that he may wreak a ten years' vengeance on thy life.
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الله الله درمیا در خون خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر دم و افسون خویش
- By God, by God, do not plunge in thine own blood, do not rely on thy artful words and wiles.
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شحنهی صدر جهان بودی و راد ** معتمد بودی مهندس اوستاد
- Thou wert the Sadr-i Jahán's constable and a noble; thou wert the trusted (agent) and master-engineer (in his affairs).
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غدو کردی وز جزا بگریختی ** رسته بودی باز چون آویختی
- (Then) thou didst act treacherously and flee from punishment: thou hadst escaped: how hast thou let thyself be caught again?
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از بلا بگریختی با صد حیل ** ابلهی آوردت اینجا یا اجل
- With a hundred devices thou didst flee from tribulation: has folly brought thee hither or (thy) fate?
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ای که عقلت بر عطارد دق کند ** عقل و عاقل را قضا احمق کند 3880
- O thou whose intellect jeers at Mercury (the celestial Scribe), Destiny makes a fool of intellect and the intelligent.
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نحس خرگوشی که باشد شیرجو ** زیرکی و عقل و چالاکیت کو
- Luckless is the hare that seeks (to encounter) the lion: where is thy cleverness and intelligence and quick-wittedness?