- (They say), “We are Súfís and have cast off our (bodily) mantles: we will not take (them) back after we have gambled (them) away.
- صوفییم و خرقه‌ها انداختیم ** باز نستانیم چون در باختیم
- We have seen the recompense (from God)—(and) how (can there be) a (worldly) recompense then (after that)? Want and desire and object are gone from us.
- ما عوض دیدیم آنگه چون عوض ** رفت از ما حاجت و حرص و غرض
- We have emerged from a briny and destroying water, we have attained to the pure wine (of Paradise) and the fountain of Kawthar. 1010
- ز آب شور و مهلکی بیرون شدیم ** بر رحیق و چشمه‌ی کوثر زدیم
- O World, that which thou hast shown unto others—faithlessness and deceit and grievous pride—
- آنچ کردی ای جهان با دیگران ** بی‌وفایی و فن و ناز گران
- We pour (it all) on thy head in repayment, for we are martyrs come to war (against thee).”
- بر سرت ریزیم ما بهر جزا ** که شهیدیم آمده اندر غزا
- (This is) in order that you may know that the Holy God hath servants impetuous and combative,
- تا بدانی که خدای پاک را ** بندگان هستند پر حمله و مری
- (Who) tear out the moustache of worldly hypocrisy and pitch their tents on the rampart of (Divine) aid.
- سبلت تزویر دنیا بر کنند ** خیمه را بر باروی نصرت زنند
- These martyrs have become warriors anew, and these captives have gained the victory once more; 1015
- این شهیدان باز نو غازی شدند ** وین اسیران باز بر نصرت زدند
- They have lifted up their heads again from non-existence, saying, “Behold us if thou art not blind from birth,”
- سر برآوردند باز از نیستی ** که ببین ما را گر اکمه نیستی
- That you may know that in non-existence there are suns, and that what is a sun here is (only) a small star yonder.
- تا بدانی در عدم خورشیدهاست ** وآنچ اینجا آفتاب آنجا سهاست