Strive that this search may increase, so that thy heart (spirit) may escape from this bodily dungeon.1735
جهد کن تا این طلب افزون شود ** تا دلت زین چاه تن بیرون شود
People will say, “Poor so-and-so is dead,” (but) thou wilt say, “I am living, O ye heedless ones!
خلق گوید مرد مسکین آن فلان ** تو بگویی زنده‌ام ای غافلان
Though my body, like (other) bodies, is laid to rest, the Eight Paradises have blossomed in my heart.”
گر تن من هم‌چو تن‌ها خفته است ** هشت جنت در دلم بشکفته است
When the spirit is lying at rest amidst roses and eglantines, what does it matter if the body is (buried) in that dung?
جان چو خفته در گل و نسرین بود ** چه غمست ار تن در آن سرگین بود
What should the spirit (thus) laid asleep know of the body, (or care) whether it (the body) is in a rose-garden or an ashpit?
جان خفته چه خبر دارد ز تن ** کو به گلشن خفت یا در گولخن
(For) in the bright (celestial) world the spirit is crying, “Oh, would that my people knew!”1740
می‌زند جان در جهان آبگون ** نعره یا لیت قومی یعلمون
If the spirit shall not live without this body, then for whom shall Heaven be the palace (of everlasting abode)?
گر نخواهد زیست جان بی این بدن ** پس فلک ایوان کی خواهد بدن
If thy spirit shall not live without the body, for whom is the blessing (promised in the words) in Heaven is your provision?
گر نخواهد بی بدن جان تو زیست ** فی السماء رزقکم روزی کیست
Explaining the banefulness of the fat and sweet things of the World and how they hinder one from (receiving) the Food of God, as he (the Prophet) hath said—“Hunger is the Food of God with which He revives the bodies of the true (witnesses to Him),” i.e. in hunger the Food of God is (forthcoming); and he hath said, “I pass the night with my Lord and He gives me food and drink”; and God hath said, “being provided for, rejoicing.”
در بیان وخامت چرب و شیرین دنیا و مانع شدن او از طعام الله چنانک فرمود الجوع طعام الله یحیی به ابدان الصدیقین ای فی الجوع طعام الله و قوله ابیت عند ربی یطعمنی و یسقینی و قوله یرزقون فرحین
(If) you are delivered from this provision of gross scraps, you will fall to (eating) dainty viands and noble food.
وا رهی زین روزی ریزه‌ی کثیف ** در فتی در لوت و در قوت شریف
(Even) if you are eating a hundred pounds' weight of His viands, you will depart pure and light as a peri;
گر هزاران رطل لوتش می‌خوری ** می‌روی پاک و سبک هم‌چون پری