Our breaths soar up with the choice (words), as a gift from us, to the abode of everlastingness;
ترتقی أنفاسنا بالمنتقی ** متحفا منا إلی دار البقا
Then comes to us the recompense of our speech, a double (recompense) thereof, as a mercy from (God) the Glorious;
ثم تاتینا مکافات المقال ** ضعف ذاک رحمة من ذی الجلال
Then He causes us to repair to (makes us utter) good words like those (already uttered), that His servant may obtain (something more) of what he has obtained.885
ثم یلجینا الی امثالها ** کی ینال العبد مما نالها
Thus do they (our good words) ascend while it (the Divine mercy) descends continually: mayst thou never cease to keep up that (ascent and descent)!
هکذا تعرج و تنزل دایما ** ذا فلا زلت علیه قائما
Let us speak Persian: the meaning is that this attraction (by which God draws the soul towards Himself) comes from the same quarter whence came that savour (spiritual delight experienced in and after prayer).
پارسی گوییم یعنی این کشش ** ز آن طرف آید که آمد آن چشش