How should I see the face of that silver-shanked one? Take heed, do not lay (on me) as a task that which cannot be done.”
کی ببینم من رخ آن سیم‌ساق ** هین مکن تکلیف ما لیس یطاق
Again, the crooked (perverted) sense hath naught but crooked (perverse) perception, (so) go crookedly into His presence or go straight, as thou wilt (it matters not).
باز حس کژ نبیند غیر کژ ** خواه کژ غژ پیش او یا راست غژ
Know for sure that the eye of him who sees double is remote from seeing the Unity, O Khwája who aidest (the true Religion).2395
چشم احول از یکی دیدن یقین ** دانک معزولست ای خواجه معین
Thou who art a Pharaoh art wholly deceit and hypocrisy: (hence) thou knowest no difference between me and thyself.
تو که فرعونی همه مکری و زرق ** مر مرا از خود نمی‌دانی تو فرق
Do not regard (judge of) me from thyself, O false-playing man, that thou mayst not see the single as double.
منگر از خود در من ای کژباز تو ** تا یکی تو را نبینی تو دوتو
Regard (judge of) me from me (with my eyes) for one moment, that thou mayst behold a spacious region beyond (phenomenal) existence,
بنگر اندر من ز من یک ساعتی ** تا ورای کون بینی ساحتی
And mayst be delivered from straitness and dishonour and renown (good and evil repute) and behold love within love, and peace (be with thee)!
وا رهی از تنگی و از ننگ و نام ** عشق اندر عشق بینی والسلام
Then, when thou hast been delivered from the body, thou wilt know that ear and nose can become eye.2400
پس بدانی چونک رستی از بدن ** گوش و بینی چشم می‌داند شدن
That sweet-tongued (spiritual) king has said with truth that every hair of gnostics becomes an eye.
راست گفتست آن شه شیرین‌زبان ** چشم گرد مو به موی عارفان
Certainly the eye had no eye (vision) at first: it was an embryo of flesh in the womb.
چشم را چشمی نبود اول یقین ** در رحم بود او جنین گوشتین