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  • هم‌چو مجنون از رخ لیلی خویش  ** کرده‌ای تو چارقی را دین و کیش 
  • Thou hast made a rustic shoe (the object of) thy devotion and religion, as Majnún (made) of his Laylá’s face (an object of the same kind).

  • با دو کهنه مهر جان آمیخته ** هر دو را در حجره‌ای آویخته
  • Thou hast mingled thy soul’s love with two old articles (of dress) and hung them both in a chamber.

  • چند گویی با دو کهنه نو سخن  ** در جمادی می‌دمی سر کهن 
  • How long wilt thou speak new words to (those) two old things and breathe the ancient secret into a substance devoid of life?

  • چون عرب با ربع و اطلال ای ایاز  ** می‌کشی از عشق گفت خود دراز  3255
  • Like (the poets among) the Arabs, O Ayáz, thou art drawing out long and lovingly thy converse with the (deserted) abodes and the traces of former habitation.

  • چارقت ربع کدامین آصفست  ** پوستین گویی که کرته‌ی یوسفست 
  • Of what Ásaf are thy shoon the abode? One would say that thy sheepskin jacket is the shirt of Joseph.”

  • هم‌چو ترسا که شمارد با کشش  ** جرم یکساله زنا و غل و غش 
  • (This is) like (the case of) the Christian who recounts to his priest a year’s sins––fornication and malice and hypocrisy––

  • تا بیامرزد کشش زو آن گناه  ** عفو او را عفو داند از اله 
  • In order that the priest may pardon his sins, for he regards his (the priest’s) forgiveness as forgiveness from God.

  • نیست آگه آن کشش از جرم و داد  ** لیک بس جادوست عشق و اعتقاد 
  • The priest has no (real) knowledge of sin and pardon; but love and firm belief are mightily bewitching.

  • دوستی و وهم صد یوسف تند  ** اسحر از هاروت و ماروتست خود  3260
  • Love and imagination weave (create) a hundred (forms beautiful as) Joseph: in sooth they are greater sorcerers than Hárút and Márút.

  • صورتی پیدا کند بر یاد او  ** جذب صورت آردت در گفت و گو 
  • They cause a form (of phantasy) to appear in memory of him (your Beloved): the attraction of the form leads you into (conversation with it).

  • رازگویی پیش صورت صد هزار  ** آن چنان که یار گوید پیش یار 
  • You tell a hundred thousand secrets in the form’s presence, just as a friend speaks (intimately) in the presence of a friend.

  • نه بدانجا صورتی نه هیکلی  ** زاده از وی صد الست و صد بلی 
  • No (material) form or shape is there; (yet) from it proceed a hundred (utterances of the words) “Am not I (thy Beloved)?” and (from you) a hundred “Yeas.”

  • آن چنان که مادری دل‌برده‌ای  ** پیش گور بچه‌ی نومرده‌ای 
  • (‘Tis) as when a mother, distraught (with grief) beside the grave of a child newly dead,

  • رازها گوید به جد و اجتهاد  ** می‌نماید زنده او را آن جماد  3265
  • Utters heart-felt words earnestly and intensely: the inanimate (corpse) seems to her to be alive.

  • حی و قایم داند او آن خاک را  ** چشم و گوشی داند او خاشاک را 
  • She regards that dust as living and erect, she regards that rubbish as (having) an eye and an ear.

  • پیش او هر ذره‌ی آن خاک گور  ** گوش دارد هوش دارد وقت شور 
  • To her, at the moment when she is crazed (with grief), every atom of the earth in the grave seems to have hearing and intelligence.

  • مستمع داند به جد آن خاک را  ** خوش نگر این عشق ساحرناک را 
  • She believes with all her might that the earth is hearkening (to her): look well at this Love that works magic!

  • آنچنان بر خاک گور تازه او  ** دم‌بدم خوش می‌نهد با اشک رو 
  • Fondly and with tears she lays her face, time after time, on the fresh earth of the grave in such wise

  • که بوقت زندگی هرگز چنان  ** روی ننهادست بر پور چو جان  3270
  • As during his life she never laid her face on the son who was so dear to her;

  • از عزا چون چند روزی بگذرد  ** آتش آن عشق او ساکن شود 
  • (But) when some days pass in mourning, the fire of her love sinks to rest.

  • عشق بر مرده نباشد پایدار  ** عشق را بر حی جان‌افزای دار 
  • Love for the dead is not lasting: keep your love (fixed) on the Living One who increases spiritual life.

  • بعد از آن زان گور خود خواب آیدش  ** از جمادی هم جمادی زایدش 
  • Afterwards, indeed, from that grave (nothing) comes to her (but) slumber (indifference and oblivion): from an insensible object is born in her the same insensibility,

  • زانک عشق افسون خود بربود و رفت  ** ماند خاکستر چو آتش رفت تفت 
  • Because Love has carried off his enchantment and gone away: as soon as the fire is sped, (only) ashes remain.

  • آنچ بیند آن جوان در آینه  ** پیر اندر خشت می‌بیند همه  3275
  • The (wise) Elder (Pír) beholds in the (iron) brick all that the (ignorant) young man beholds in the mirror.

  • پیر عشق تست نه ریش سپید  ** دستگیر صد هزاران ناامید 
  • The Elder is thy love, not (the owner of) a white beard. ‘Tis he (Love) that gives a helping hand to thousands who are in despair.