- Next year it came sweeping proudly along. “Hey, where hast thou been?” “In the sea of the pure.
- سال دیگر آمد او دامنکشان ** هی کجا بودی به دریای خوشان
- I went from here dirty; I have come (back) clean. I have received a robe of honour, I have come to the earth (again).
- من نجس زینجا شدم پاک آمدم ** بستدم خلعت سوی خاک آمدم
- Hark, come unto me, O ye polluted ones, for my nature hath partaken of the nature of God.
- هین بیایید ای پلیدان سوی من ** که گرفت از خوی یزدان خوی من
- I will accept all thy foulness: I will bestow on the demon purity like (that of) the angel. 205
- در پذیرم جملهی زشتیت را ** چون ملک پاکی دهم عفریت را
- When I become defiled, I will return thither: I will go to the Source of the source of purities.
- چون شوم آلوده باز آنجا روم ** سوی اصل اصل پاکیها رو
- There I will pull the filthy cloak off my head: He will give me a clean robe once more.
- دلق چرکین بر کنم آنجا ز سر ** خلعت پاکم دهد بار دگر
- Such is His work, and my work is the same: the Lord of all created beings is the beautifier of the world.”
- کار او اینست و کار من همین ** عالمآرایست رب العالمین
- Were it not for these impurities of ours, how would the water have this glory?
- گر نبودی این پلیدیهای ما ** کی بدی این بارنامه آب را
- It stole purses of gold from a certain One: (then) it runs in every direction, crying, “Where is an insolvent?” 210
- کیسههای زر بدزدید از کسی ** میرود هر سو که هین کو مفلسی
- Either it sheds (the treasure) on a blade of grass that has grown, or it washes the face of one whose face is unwashed,
- یا بریزد بر گیاه رستهای ** یا بشوید روی رو ناشستهای