- Love and the Spirit are, both of them, hidden and veiled: if I have called Him (God) the Bride, do not find fault.
- عشق و جان هر دو نهانند و ستیر ** گر عروسش خواندهام عیبی مگیر
- I would have been silent from (fear of) the Beloved's displeasure, if He had granted me a respite for one moment,
- از ملولی یار خامش کردمی ** گر همو مهلت بدادی یک دمی
- But He keeps saying, “Say on! Come, ’tis no fault, ’tis but the requirement of the (Divine) destiny in the World Unseen.”
- لیک میگوید بگو هین عیب نیست ** جز تقاضای قضای غیب نیست
- The fault is (in him) who sees nothing but fault: how should the Pure Spirit of the Invisible see fault? 1995
- عیب باشد کاو نبیند جز که عیب ** عیب کی بیند روان پاک غیب
- Fault arises (only) in relation to the ignorant creature, not in relation to the Lord of favour (clemency).
- عیب شد نسبت به مخلوق جهول ** نی به نسبت با خداوند قبول
- Infidelity, too, is wisdom in relation to the Creator, (but) when you impute it to us, infidelity is a noxious thing.
- کفر هم نسبت به خالق حکمت است ** چون به ما نسبت کنی کفر آفت است
- And if there be one fault together with a hundred advantages (excellences), it resembles the wood (woody stalk) in the sugarcane.
- ور یکی عیبی بود با صد حیات ** بر مثال چوب باشد در نبات
- Both (sugar and stalk) alike are put into the scales, because they both are sweet like body and soul.
- در ترازو هر دو را یکسان کشند ** ز آن که آن هر دو چو جسم و جان خوشند
- Not idly, therefore, the great (mystics) said this: “The body of the holy ones (the saints) is essentially pure as (their) spirit.” 2000
- پس بزرگان این نگفتند از گزاف ** جسم پاکان عین جان افتاد صاف
- Their speech and soul and form, all (this) is absolute spirit without (external) trace.
- گفتشان و نفسشان و نقششان ** جمله جان مطلق آمد بینشان