- ’Twas a hidden treasure: because of its fullness it surged up and made the earth (like) a sultan robed in satin.
- گنج مخفی بد ز پری جوش کرد ** خاک را سلطان اطلس پوش کرد
- And if he (the Arab) had seen a branch of the Divine Tigris, he would have destroyed that jug, destroyed it.
- ور بدیدی شاخی از دجله‌‌ی خدا ** آن سبو را او فنا کردی فنا
- They that saw it are always beside themselves: like one beside himself, they hurled a stone at the jug (of their self-existence). 2865
- آن که دیدندش همیشه بی‌‌خودند ** بی‌‌خودانه بر سبو سنگی زدند
- O thou who from jealousy hast hurled a stone at the jug, and thy brokenness has in truth become soundness,
- ای ز غیرت بر سبو سنگی زده ** و این سبو ز اشکست کاملتر شده
- The jar is shattered, (but) the water is not spilled from it: from this shattering have arisen a hundred soundnesses.
- خم شکسته آب از او ناریخته ** صد درستی زین شکست انگیخته
- Every piece of the jar is in dance and ecstasy, (though) to the partial (discursive) reason this seems absurd.
- جزو جزو خم به رقص است و به حال ** عقل جزوی را نموده این محال
- In this state (of ecstasy) neither the jug is manifest nor the water. Consider well, and God knoweth best what is right.
- نی سبو پیدا در این حالت نه آب ** خوش ببین و الله اعلم بالصواب
- When you knock at the door of Reality, it will be opened to you: beat the pinion of thought, in order that you may be made a king-falcon. 2870
- چون در معنی زنی بازت کنند ** پر فکرت زن که شهبازت کنند
- The pinion of your thought has become mud-stained and heavy because you are a clay-eater: clay has become to you as bread.
- پر فکرت شد گل آلود و گران ** ز آن که گل خواری ترا گل شد چو نان
- Bread and meat are (originally) clay: eat little thereof, that you may not remain in the earth, like clay.
- نان گل است و گوشت کمتر خور از این ** تا نمانی همچو گل اندر زمین