- Dam the torrent (of ecstasy) when it runs in flood; else it will work shame and ruin.
- بند کن چون سیل سیلانی کند ** ور نه رسوایی و ویرانی کند
- What care I though ruin be (wrought)? Under the ruin there is a royal treasure.
- من چه غم دارم که ویرانی بود ** زیر ویران گنج سلطانی بود
- He that is drowned in God wishes to be more drowned, (while) his spirit (is tossed) up and down like the waves of the sea, 1745
- غرق حق خواهد که باشد غرقتر ** همچو موج بحر جان زیر و زبر
- (Asking), “Is the bottom of the sea more delightful, or the top? Is His (the Beloved's) arrow more fascinating, or the shield?”
- زیر دریا خوشتر آید یا زبر ** تیر او دل کش تر آید یا سپر
- O heart, thou art torn asunder by evil suggestion if thou recognise any difference between joy and woe.
- پاره کردهی وسوسه باشی دلا ** گر طرب را باز دانی از بلا
- Although the object of thy desire has the taste of sugar, is not absence of any object of desire (in thee) the object of the Beloved's desire?
- گر مرادت را مذاق شکر است ** بیمرادی نه مراد دل بر است
- Every star of His is the blood-price of a hundred new moons: it is lawful for Him to shed the blood of the (whole) world.
- هر ستارهش خونبهای صد هلال ** خون عالم ریختن او را حلال
- We gained the price and the blood-price: we hastened to gamble our soul away. 1750
- ما بها و خونبها را یافتیم ** جانب جان باختن بشتافتیم
- Oh, the life of lovers consists in death: thou wilt not win the (Beloved's) heart except in losing thine own.
- ای حیات عاشقان در مردگی ** دل نیابی جز که در دل بردگی
- I sought (to win) His heart with a hundred airs and graces, (but) He made excuses to me (put me off) in disdain.
- من دلش جسته به صد ناز و دلال ** او بهانه کرده با من از ملال