- Now listen to a story of those travellers on the Way who have no objection in the world.
- بشنو اکنون قصهی آن رهروان ** که ندارند اعتراضی در جهان
- Those of the saints who make invocation are in sooth different (from these travellers): sometimes they sew and sometimes they tear.
- ز اولیا اهل دعا خود دیگرند ** که همیدوزند و گاهی میدرند
- I know another class of saints whose mouths are closed to invocation. 1880
- قوم دیگر میشناسم ز اولیا ** که دهانشان بسته باشد از دعا
- Because of the content (quietism) that is subservient to (possessed by) those noble ones, it has become unlawful for them to seek to avert Destiny.
- از رضا که هست رام آن کرام ** جستن دفع قضاشان شد حرام
- In (submitting to) Destiny they experience a peculiar delight: it would be (an act of) infidelity for them to crave release.
- در قضا ذوقی همیبینند خاص ** کفرشان آید طلب کردن خلاص
- He (God) hath revealed to their hearts such a good opinion (of Him) that they do not put on the blue garb (of mourning) on account of any sorrow.
- حسن ظنی بر دل ایشان گشود ** که نپوشند از عمی جامهی کبود
- How Buhlúl questioned a certain dervish.
- سال کردن بهلول آن درویش را
- Buhlúl said to a certain dervish, “How art thou, O dervish? Inform me.”
- گفت بهلول آن یکی درویش را ** چونی ای درویش واقف کن مرا
- He said, “How should that one be, according to whose desire the work of the world goes on?— 1885
- گفت چون باشد کسی که جاودان ** بر مراد او رود کار جهان
- According to whose desire the torrents and rivers flow, and the stars move in such wise as he wills;
- سیل و جوها بر مراد او روند ** اختران زان سان که خواهد آن شوند
- And Life and Death are his officers, going to and fro according to his desire.
- زندگی و مرگ سرهنگان او ** بر مراد او روانه کو بکو