- He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.
- خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش
- God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds. 2685
- خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند
- He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.
- کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی
- He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.
- صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
- For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.
- هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
- For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.
- هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را
- Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction. 2690
- خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش
- Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.
- هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
- Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;
- این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
- For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.
- زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در