- (Somebody asks), “Is it good (news), Sir? Why are you running to and fro? Who belonging to you is it that you have lost here?”
- خواجه خیر است این دوادو چیستت ** گم شده اینجا که داری کیستت
- “It is good (news),” you tell him, “but none may know my good (news) except myself.
- گوییاش خیر است لیکن خیر من ** کس نشاید که بداند غیر من
- If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”
- گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد
- You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”
- بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانهوار
- You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him. 1695
- گوییاش من صاحبی گم کردهام ** رو به جستجوی او آوردهام
- May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”
- دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار
- When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—
- چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر
- Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.
- ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت
- You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”
- تو شدی بیهوش و افتادی به طاق ** بیخبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق
- How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union. 1700
- او چه میبیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست