- He whose spirit is beyond (the world of) natural properties— to him belongs the position of power to rive (the chain of) causes.
- آن که بیرون از طبایع جان اوست ** منصب خرق سببها آن اوست
- The (spiritual) eye regards the fountain of the miracles of the prophets as (being) without cause, not as (arising) from water and herbage.
- بیسبب بیند نه از آب و گیا ** چشم چشمهی معجزات انبیا
- These causes are (linked together) like the physician and the sick: these causes are like the lamp and the wick. 1845
- این سبب همچون طبیب است و علیل ** این سبب همچون چراغ است و فتیل
- Twist a new wick for your night-lamp, (but) know that the lamp of the sun transcends these things.
- شب چراغت را فتیل نو بتاب ** پاک دان زینها چراغ آفتاب
- Go you and make plaster for the roof of your house, (but) know that the roof of the sky is undefiled by plaster.
- رو تو کهگل ساز بهر سقف خان ** سقف گردون را ز کهگل پاک دان
- Alas that, after our Sweetheart had burned (utterly destroyed) our pain, the night-time of being alone (with Him) passed away and became day!
- اه که چون دل دار ما غم سوز شد ** خلوت شب در گذشت و روز شد
- Except at night there is no unveiling of the moon: except through heartache do not seek your heart's desire.
- جز به شب جلوه نباشد ماه را ** جز به درد دل مجو دل خواه را
- Forsaking Jesus, you have fostered the ass: of necessity, like the ass, you are outside of the curtain. 1850
- ترک عیسی کرده خر پروردهای ** لاجرم چون خر برون پردهای
- Knowledge and gnosis are the fortune of Jesus; they are not the fortune of the ass, O you asinine one!
- طالع عیسی است علم و معرفت ** طالع خر نیست ای تو خر صفت
- You listen to the moaning of the ass, and pity comes over you; then you know not (that) the ass commands you to be asinine.
- نالهی خر بشنوی رحم آیدت ** پس ندانی خر خری فرمایدت