ور به عقل ادراک این ممکن بدی ** قهر نفس از بهر چه واجب شدی

And if it were possible to perceive this (oneness) by means of reason, wherefore should self-violence have become a duty?

با چنان رحمت که دارد شاه هش ** بی‌ضرورت چون بگوید نفس کش 2685

How, with such (infinite) mercy as He hath, would the King of intellect say unnecessarily “Kill thyself”?

مبالغه کردن موش در لابه و زاری و وصلت جستن از چغز آبی

How the mouse exerted himself to the utmost in supplication and humble entreaty and besought the water-frog to grant him access (at all times).

گفت کای یار عزیز مهرکار ** من ندارم بی‌رخت یک‌دم قرار

He (the mouse) said, “O dear and affectionate friend, without (seeing) thy face I have not a moment's rest.

روز نور و مکسب و تابم توی ** شب قرار و سلوت و خوابم توی

By day thou art my light and (power of) acquisition and strength; by night thou art my rest and comfort and sleep.

از مروت باشد ار شادم کنی ** وقت و بی‌وقت از کرم یادم کنی

It would be a generous act if thou wouldst make me happy and kindly remember me early and late.

در شبان‌روزی وظیفه‌ی چاشتگاه ** راتبه کردی وصال ای نیک‌خواه

During (the period of) a (whole) day and night thou hast allowed me (only) breakfast-time for access (to thee), O well-wisher.

پانصد استسقاستم اندر جگر ** با هر استسقا قرین جوع البقر 2690

I feel in my liver five hundred cravings for drink, and bulimy (morbid hunger) is conjoined with every craving.

بی‌نیازی از غم من ای امیر ** ده زکات جاه و بنگر در فقیر

Thou, O prince, art unconcerned with my passion: pay the poor-tax on thy high estate, look (kindly) on (this) poor wretch.

این فقیر بی‌ادب نا درخورست ** لیک لطف عام تو زان برترست

This poor unmannerly wretch is not worthy (of thy favour); but thy universal grace is superior to (regard for) that.

می‌نجوید لطف عام تو سند ** آفتابی بر حدثها می‌زند

Thy universal grace requires no support (reason to justify it): a sun strikes (with its beams) on (all) ordures.

نور او را زان زیانی نابده ** وان حدث از خشکیی هیزم شده

Its light suffers no loss thereby, and the ordure is made dry and (fit for) fuel,

تا حدث در گلخنی شد نور یافت ** در در و دیوار حمامی بتافت 2695

So that the ordure goes into a bath-furnace, is converted into light, and illumines the door and wall of a bath-house.

بود آلایش شد آرایش کنون ** چون برو بر خواند خورشید آن فسون

(Formerly) it was a defilement, now it has become an adornment, since the sun chanted that spell (exerted that powerful influence) upon it.

شمس هم معده‌ی زمین را گرم کرد ** تا زمین باقی حدثها را بخورد

The sun also warms the belly of the earth, so that the earth consumes the remaining ordures.

جزو خاکی گشت و رست از وی نبات ** هکذا یمحو الاله السیات

They become a part of the earth, and herbage springs up from them: even so doth God wipe out evil actions.

با حدث که بترینست این کند ** کش نبات و نرگس و نسرین کند

To ordure, which is the worst (of things), He does this (favour), that He makes it herbage and narcissus and eglantine.

تا به نسرین مناسک در وفا ** حق چه بخشد در جزا و در عطا 2700

(Judge, then), what God bestows in (the way of) recompense and bounty on the eglantines (good works) of devotion (performed) faithfully.

چون خبیثان را چنین خلعت دهد ** طیبین را تا چه بخشد در رصد

Since He confers such a robe of honour on the wicked, (consider) what He bestows on the righteous in the place where He waits (for them).

آن دهد حقشان که لا عین رات ** که نگنجد در زبان و در لغت

God gives them that which no eye hath beheld, that which is not comprehensible in any tongue or language.

ما کییم این را بیا ای یار من ** روز من روشن کن از خلق حسن

Who are we to (aspire to) this? Come, my friend, make my day bright with (thy) goodly disposition.

منگر اندر زشتی و مکروهیم ** که ز پر زهری چو مار کوهیم

Do not regard my ugliness and hatefulness, though I am as venomous as a mountain-snake.

ای که من زشت و خصالم جمله زشت ** چون شوم گل چون مرا او خار کشت 2705

Oh, I am ugly and all my qualities are ugly: since He planted me as a thorn, how should I become a rose?

نوبهار حسن گل ده خار را ** زینت طاووس ده این مار را

Bestow on the thorn the springtide of the rose's beauty: bestow on this snake the loveliness of the peacock!

در کمال زشتیم من منتهی ** لطف تو در فضل و در فن منتهی

I have reached the limit in perfection of ugliness: thy grace has reached the limit in excellence and accomplishment.

حاجت این منتهی زان منتهی ** تو بر آر ای حسرت سرو سهی

Do thou grant the boon sought by this consummate one from that consummate one, O thou who art the envy of the tall cypress.