- In regard to him it is (worthy of) praise, and in regard to thee it is (worthy of) blame: in regard to him honey, and in regard to thee poison.
- در حق او مدح و در حق تو ذم ** در حق او شهد و در حق تو سم
- I am independent of all purity and impurity, of all slothfulness and alacrity (in worshipping Me). 1755
- ما بری از پاک و ناپاکی همه ** از گران جانی و چالاکی همه
- I did not ordain (Divine worship) that I might make any profit; nay, but that I might do a kindness to (My) servants.
- من نکردم امر تا سودی کنم ** بلکه تا بر بندگان جودی کنم
- In the Hindoos the idiom of Hind (India) is praiseworthy; in the Sindians the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy.
- هندوان را اصطلاح هند مدح ** سندیان را اصطلاح سند مدح
- I am not sanctified by their glorification (of Me); ’tis they that become sanctified and pearl-scattering (pure and radiant).
- من نگردم پاک از تسبیحشان ** پاک هم ایشان شوند و در فشان
- I look not at the tongue and the speech; I look at the spirit and the state (of feeling).
- ما زبان را ننگریم و قال را ** ما روان را بنگریم و حال را
- I gaze into the heart (to see) whether it be lowly, though the words uttered be not lowly, 1760
- ناظر قلبیم اگر خاشع بود ** گر چه گفت لفظ ناخاضع رود
- Because the heart is the substance, speech (only) the accident; so the accident is subservient, the substance is the (real) object.
- ز انکه دل جوهر بود گفتن عرض ** پس طفیل آمد عرض جوهر غرض
- How much (more) of these phrases and conceptions and metaphors? I want burning, burning: become friendly with that burning!
- چند ازین الفاظ و اضمار و مجاز ** سوز خواهم سوز با آن سوز ساز
- Light up a fire of love in thy soul, burn thought and expression entirely (away)!
- آتشی از عشق در جان بر فروز ** سربهسر فکر و عبارت را بسوز