This is a wondrous nightingale that opens his mouth to eat thorns and roses together.
این عجب بلبل که بگشاید دهان ** تا خورد او خار را با گلستان
What nightingale is this? (Nay), ’tis a fiery monster: because of (his) love all unsweet things are sweetness to him.
این چه بلبل این نهنگ آتشی است ** جمله ناخوشها ز عشق او را خوشی است
He is a lover of the Universal, and he himself is the Universal: he is in love with himself and seeking his own love.”’”
عاشق کل است و خود کل است او ** عاشق خویش است و عشق خویش جو
Description of the wings of the birds that are Divine Intelligences.
صفت اجنحه‌‌ی طیور عقول الهی
Such-like is the tale of the parrot which is the soul: where is that one who is the confidant of (the spiritual) birds?1575
قصه‌‌ی طوطی جان زین سان بود ** کو کسی کو محرم مرغان بود
Where is a bird, weak and innocent, and within him Solomon with (all) his host?
کو یکی مرغی ضعیفی بی‌‌گناه ** و اندرون او سلیمان با سپاه
When he moans bitterly, without thanksgiving or complaint, a noise of tumult falls on (arises in) the Seven Spheres (of Heaven).
چون بنالد زار بی‌‌شکر و گله ** افتد اندر هفت گردون غلغله
At every moment (there come) to him from God a hundred missives, a hundred couriers: from him one (cry of) “O my Lord!” and from God a hundred (cries of) “Labbayka” (“Here am I”).
هر دمش صد نامه صد پیک از خدا ** یا ربی زو شصت لبیک از خدا
In the sight of God his backsliding is better than obedience; beside his infidelity all faiths are tattered (worthless).
زلت او به ز طاعت نزد حق ** پیش کفرش جمله ایمانها خلق
Every moment he hath an ascension (to God) peculiar to himself: He (God) lays upon his crown a hundred peculiar crowns.1580
هر دمی او را یکی معراج خاص ** بر سر تاجش نهد صد تاج خاص
His form is on earth and his spirit in “no-place,” a “no-place” beyond the imagination of travellers (on the mystic Way):
صورتش بر خاک و جان بر لامکان ** لامکانی فوق وهم سالکان