The former (the maid) ran because of the love in her soul, and the latter (the wife) because of fear. What is fear in comparison with love? (There is) a great difference.
آن ز عشق جان دوید و این ز بیم ** عشق کو و بیم کو فرقی عظیم
The mystic's progress is (an ascension) at every moment to the throne of the (Divine) King; the ascetic's progress is one day's journey every month.2180
سیر عارف هر دمی تا تخت شاه ** سیر زاهد هر مهی یک روزه راه
Although, for the ascetic, one day is of great value, (yet) how should his one day be (equal to) fifty thousand (years)?
گرچه زاهد را بود روزی شگرف ** کی بود یک روز او خمسین الف
The length of every day in the life of the adept is fifty thousand of the years of the world.
قدر هر روزی ز عمر مرد کار ** باشد از سال جهان پنجه هزار
Intellects are excluded from this mystery: if the heart of Imagination burst, let it burst!
عقلها زین سر بود بیرون در ** زهرهی وهم ار بدرد گو بدر
In the sight of Love, fear is not (so much as) a single hair: in the law of Love, all things (else) are (offered) as a sacrifice.
ترس مویی نیست اندر پیش عشق ** جمله قربانند اندر کیش عشق
Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by lust and gluttony. [Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by vulva and belly.]2185
عشق وصف ایزدست اما که خوف ** وصف بندهی مبتلای فرج و جوف
Since you have read in the Qur’án (the words) “they love Him” joined in a certain place with (the words) “He loves them,”
چون یحبون بخواندی در نبی ** با یحبوهم قرین در مطلبی
Know, then, that love (mahabbat), and excessive love (‘ishq) too, is an attribute of God: fear is not an attribute of God, O honoured sir.
پس محبت وصف حق دان عشق نیز ** خوف نبود وصف یزدان ای عزیز
What relation exists between the attributes of God and those of a handful of earth? What relation exists between the attributes of him who is originated in time and those of the Holy (Eternal) One?
وصف حق کو وصف مشتی خاک کو ** وصف حادث کو وصف پاک کو