- “Why,” said he, “wherefore art thou afraid of this, when thou hast no fear of the lion of the jungle? 2005
- گفت آخر از چه می‌ترسی ازین ** چون نمی‌ترسی تو از شیر عرین
- Lions and wolves and bears and onagers and (other) wild animals gather around thee by night;
- شیر و گرگ و خرس و هر گور و دده ** گرد بر گرد تو شب گرد آمده
- The smell of man does not come to them from thee because of the abundance of love and ecstasy in thy heart.”
- می نه آیدشان ز تو بوی بشر ** ز انبهی عشق و وجد اندر جگر
- Wolf and bear and lion know what love is: he that is blind to love is inferior to a dog.
- گرگ و خرس و شیر داند عشق چیست ** کم ز سگ باشد که از عشق او عمیست
- If the dog had not a vein of love, how should the dog of the Cave have sought (to win) the heart (of the Seven Sleepers)?
- گر رگ عشقی نبودی کلب را ** کی بجستی کلب کهفی قلب را
- Moreover, in the world there is (many a one) of its kind, dog-like in appearance, though it is not celebrated (like the dog of the Cave). 2010
- هم ز جنس او به صورت چون سگان ** گر نشد مشهور هست اندر جهان
- You have not smelt (discerned) the heart in your own kind: how should you smell the heart in wolf and sheep?
- بو نبردی تو دل اندر جنس خویش ** کی بری تو بوی دل از گرگ و میش
- If there had not been Love, how should there have been existence? How should bread have attached itself to you and become (assimilated to) you?
- گر نبودی عشق هستی کی بدی ** کی زدی نان بر تو و کی تو شدی
- The bread became you: through what? Through (your) love and appetite; otherwise, how should the bread have had any access to the (vital) spirit?
- نان تو شد از چه ز عشق و اشتها ** ورنه نان را کی بدی تا جان رهی
- Love makes the dead bread into spirit: it makes the spirit that was perishable everlasting.
- عشق نان مرده را می جان کند ** جان که فانی بود جاویدان کند