کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی

He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.

صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او

He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.

هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را

For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.

هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را

For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.

خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش 2690

Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.

هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو

Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.

این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها

Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;

زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در

For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.

می‌شناسا هین بچش با احتیاط ** تا میی یابی منزه ز اختلاط

O connoisseur of wine, beware, taste with precaution, that thou mayst find a wine free from adulteration.

هر دو مستی می‌دهندت لیک این ** مستی‌ات آرد کشان تا رب دین 2695

Both (jars) will intoxicate thee, but this (blessed) intoxication, drawing (thee along), will lead thee to the Lord of the Judgement,

تا رهی از فکر و وسواس و حیل ** بی عقال این عقل در رقص‌الجمل

So that thou wilt be delivered from thought and anxiety and expedients, (whilst) this intellect (moves) unshackled at the camel's ambling pace.

انبیا چون جنس روحند و ملک ** مر ملک را جذب کردند از فلک

Since the prophets are homogeneous with spirit and angel, they drew angels from heaven.

باد جنس آتش است و یار او ** که بود آهنگ هر دو بر علو

Wind (air) is the congener and friend of fire, for the tendency of both is upward.

چون ببندی تو سر کوزه‌ی تهی ** در میان حوض یا جویی نهی

When you stop the mouth of an empty pot and put it in a tank or river,

تا قیامت آن فرو ناید به پست ** که دلش خالیست و در وی باد هست 2700

It will not sink till the Resurrection, for its heart (interior) is void and there is (nothing but) wind (air) in it.

میل بادش چون سوی بالا بود ** ظرف خود را هم سوی بالا کشد

Since the desire of the wind (confined) in it is (to move) upward, it draws upward also the vessel containing it.

باز آن جانها که جنس انبیاست ** سوی‌ایشان کش کشان چون سایه‌هاست

Again, the spirits that are homogeneous with the prophets are moving gradually, like shadows, towards them,

زانک عقلش غالبست و بی ز شک ** عقل جنس آمد به خلقت با ملک

Because its (such a spirit's) intelligence is predominant; and beyond doubt the intelligence is homogeneous in nature with the angel;

وان هوای نفس غالب بر عدو ** نفس جنس اسفل آمد شد بدو

While in the enemy (of God) the carnal soul's concupiscence is predominant: the carnal soul is homogeneous with the lowest (of the low) and goes to it.

بود قبطی جنس فرعون ذمیم ** بود سبطی جنس موسی کلیم 2705

The Egyptian was a congener of the reprobate Pharaoh; the Israelite was a congener of Moses, the Kalím.

بود هامان جنس‌تر فرعون را ** برگزیدش برد بر صدر سرا

Hámán was more congenial (than any one else) to Pharaoh: he (Pharaoh) chose him out and brought him to the high-seat in the palace.

لاجرم از صدر تا قعرش کشید ** که ز جنس دوزخ‌اند آن دو پلید

Inevitably he (Hámán) dragged him (Pharaoh) from the high-seat to the lowest depth, for those two unclean ones are homogenous with Hell.

هر دو سوزنده چو ذوزخ ضد نور ** هر دو چون دوزخ ز نور دل نفور

Both, like Hell, are burning and contrary to light: both, like Hell, are exceedingly averse to the light of the heart;

زانک دوزخ گوید ای مومن تو زود ** برگذر که نورت آتش را ربود

For Hell says, “O true believer, pass by quickly, since thy light hath taken away (extinguished) the Fire.

بگذر اى مومن كه نورت مىكشد ** آتشم را چون كه دامن مىكشد 2710

Pass, O true believer, for thy light, when it sweeps by’, quenches my fire.”