هرچه غیر شورش و دیوانگیست ** اندرین ره دوری و بیگانگیست

In this Way everything except derangement and madness is (a cause of) farness and alienation (from Him).

هین بنه بر پایم آن زنجیر را ** که دریدم سلسله‌ی تدبیر را 610

Hark, put that fetter on my leg, for I have torn the chain of (rational) consideration to pieces.

غیر آن جعد نگار مقبلم ** گر دو صد زنجیر آری بگسلم

Though you bring two hundred fetters, I will snap (them all) except the curls of my auspicious Beauty.

عشق و ناموس ای برادر راست نیست ** بر رد ناموس ای عاشق مه‌ایست

Love and reputation, O brother, are not in accord: do not stand at the door of reputation, O lover.

وقت آن آمد که من عریان شوم ** نقش بگذارم سراسر جان شوم

The time is come for me to strip, to quit the (bodily) form and become wholly spirit.

ای عدو شرم و اندیشه بیا ** که دریدم پرده‌ی شرم و حیا

Come, O Enemy of shame and anxious thought, for I have rent the veil of shame and bashfulness.

ای ببسته خواب جان از جادوی ** سخت‌دل یارا که در عالم توی 615

O Thou who by Thy magic hast spell-bound the spirit's sleep, O hardhearted Beloved that Thou art in the world,

هین گلوی صبر گیر و می‌فشار ** تا خنک گردد دل عشق ای سوار

Hark, grip the throat of self-restraint and strangle it, in order that Love's heart may be made happy, O Cavalier!

تا نسوزم کی خنگ گردد دلش ** ای دل ما خاندان و منزلش

How should His heart be made happy till I burn? Oh, my heart is His home and dwelling-place.

خانه‌ی خود را همی‌سوزی بسوز ** کیست آن کس کو بگوید لایجوز

(If) Thou wilt burn Thy house, burn it! Who is he that will say, “’Tis not allowed”?

خوش بسوز این خانه را ای شر مست ** خانه‌ی عاشق چنین اولیترست

Burn this house well (and thoroughly), O furious Lion! The lover's house is better so.

بعد ازین این سوز را قبله کنم ** زانک شمعم من بسوزش روشنم 620

Henceforth I will make this burning my qibla (aim), for I am (like) the candle: I am (made) bright by burning.

خواب را بگذار امشب ای پدر ** یک شبی بر کوی بی‌خوابان گذر

Abandon sleep to-night, O father: for one night traverse the district of the sleepless.

بنگر اینها را که مجنون گشته‌اند ** هم‌چو پروانه بوصلت کشته‌اند

Look on these (lovers) who have become frenzied and been killed, like moths, by (their) union (with the Beloved).

بنگر این کشتی خلقان غرق عشق ** اژدهایی گشت گویی حلق عشق

Look on this ship of (God's) creatures (and see how it is) sunk in Love: you would say that Love's throat has become a dragon (to swallow it)—

اژدهایی ناپدید دلربا ** عقل هم‌چون کوه را او کهربا

An invisible heart-ravishing dragon: it is a magnet to draw (towards itself) the reason that is (firm) like a mountain.

عقل هر عطار کاگه شد ازو ** طبله‌ها را ریخت اندر آب جو 625

Every druggist whose reason became acquainted with Him (Love) dropped the trays (containing drugs and perfumes) into the water of the river.

رو کزین جو برنیایی تا ابد ** لم یکن حقا له کفوا احد

Go, for you will not emerge from this river (of Love) unto everlasting: in truth there is none to be compared with Him.

ای مزور چشم بگشای و ببین ** چند گویی می‌ندانم آن و این

O false pretender, open your eye and see! How long will you say, “I know not that or this”?

از وبای زرق و محرومی بر آ ** در جهان حی و قیومی در آ

Ascend from the plague of hypocrisy and deprivation: enter the world of Life and Self-subsistence,

تا نمی‌بینم همی‌بینم شود ** وین ندانمهات می‌دانم بود

So that “I see not” may become “I see” and these “I know not's” of yours may be (turned into) “I know.”

بگذر از مستی و مستی‌بخش باش ** زین تلون نقل کن در استواش 630

Pass beyond intoxication and be one who bestows intoxication (on others): move away from this mutability into His permanence.

چند نازی تو بدین مستی بس است ** بر سر هر کوی چندان مست هست

How long will you take pride in this intoxication? ’Tis enough: there are so many intoxicated (like you) at the top of every street.

گر دو عالم پر شود سرمست یار ** جمله یک باشند و آن یک نیست خوار

If the two worlds were filled with those whom the Friend has intoxicated, they all would be one (spirit), and that one is not despicable.

این ز بسیاری نیابد خواریی ** خوار کی بود تن‌پرستی ناریی

This (spirit) is nowise rendered despicable by (the appearance of) multitude. Who is despicable? A body-server (sensualist) of fiery nature.