- The (Divine) jealousy barred (all) the ways of device and broke the banner of the army of cogitation.
- راههای چاره را غیرت ببست ** لشکر اندیشه را رایت شکست
- At first, expectation was the comforting friend of (his) sorrow; at last, there broke him—who? Even (the same) expectation.
- بود اول مونس غم انتظار ** آخرش بشکست کی هم انتظار
- Sometimes he would say, “This is an irremediable affliction”; sometimes he would say, “No, it is the life of my spirit.”
- گاه گفتی کین بلای بی‌دواست ** گاه گفتی نه حیات جان ماست
- Sometimes (self-) existence would lift up a head from him (appear in him); sometimes he would eat of the fruit of non-existence.
- گاه هستی زو بر آوردی سری ** گاه او از نیستی خوردی بری
- When this (bodily) nature became cold (irksome and useless) to him, the fountain of union (with the beloved) would boil hotly. 4760
- چونک بر وی سرد گشتی این نهاد ** جوش کردی گرم چشمه‌ی اتحاد
- When he put up with (contented himself with) the unprovidedness of exile, the provision of unprovidedness hastened towards him.
- چونک با بی‌برگی غربت بساخت ** برگ بی‌برگی به سوی او بتاخت
- The wheat-ears of his thought were purged of chaff: he became, like the moon, a guide to the night-travellers.
- خوشه‌های فکرتش بی‌کاه شد ** شب‌روان را رهنما چون ماه شد
- Oh, there is many a parrot that speaks though it is mute; oh, there is many a sweet-spirited one whose face is sour.
- ای بسا طوطی گویای خمش ** ای بسا شیرین‌روان رو ترش
- Go to the graveyard, sit awhile in silence, and behold those eloquent silent ones;
- رو به گورستان دمی خامش نشین ** آن خموشان سخن‌گو را ببین
- But, if you see that their dust is of one colour, (yet) their active (spiritual) state is not uniform. 4765
- لیک اگر یکرنگ بینی خاکشان ** نیست یکسان حالت چالاکشان