- Although the external sun is unique, still it is possible to imagine one resembling it; 120
- شمس در خارج اگر چه هست فرد ** میتوان هم مثل او تصویر کرد
- But the Sun by which the aether was brought into existence hath no peer.
- شمس جان کاو خارج آمد از اثیر ** نبودش در ذهن و در خارج نظیر
- Where is room in the imagination for His essence, that the like of Him should come into the imagination?
- در تصور ذات او را گنج کو ** تا در آید در تصور مثل او
- When news arrived of the face of Shamsu’ddín (the Sun of the Religion), the sun of the fourth heaven drew in its head (hid itself for shame).
- چون حدیث روی شمس الدین رسید ** شمس چارم آسمان سر در کشید
- Since his name has come (to my lips), it behoves me to set forth some hint of his bounty.
- واجب آید چون که آمد نام او ** شرح کردن رمزی از انعام او
- At this moment my Soul has plucked my skirt: he has caught the perfume of Joseph's vest. 125
- این نفس جان دامنم بر تافته ست ** بوی پیراهان یوسف یافته ست
- (He said): “For the sake of our years of companionship, recount one of those sweet ecstasies,
- از برای حق صحبت سالها ** باز گو حالی از آن خوش حالها
- That earth and heaven may laugh (with joy), that intellect and spirit and eye may increase a hundredfold.”
- تا زمین و آسمان خندان شود ** عقل و روح و دیده صد چندان شود
- (I said): “Do not lay tasks on me, for I have passed away from myself (faná); my apprehensions are blunted and I know not how to praise.
- لا تکلفنی فإنی فی الفنا ** کلت أفهامی فلا أحصی ثنا
- Everything that is said by one who has not returned to consciousness, if he constrains himself or boastfully exaggerates, is unseemly.
- کل شیء قاله غیر المفیق ** إن تکلف أو تصلف لا یلیق