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
If I should continue to describe Love, a hundred Resurrections would pass, and it (my description would still be) incomplete;
شرح عشق ار من بگویم بر دوام ** صد قیامت بگذرد و آن ناتمام
For there is a limit to the date of the Resurrection, but what limit can there be where the Divine attributes are (concerned)?2190
زانک تاریخ قیامت را حدست ** حد کجا آنجا که وصف ایزدست
Love hath five hundred wings, and every wing (extends) from above the empyrean to beneath the earth.
عشق را پانصد پرست و هر پری ** از فراز عرش تا تحت‌الثری
The timorous ascetic runs on foot; the lovers (of God) fly more quickly than the lightning and the wind.
زاهد با ترس می‌تازد به پا ** عاشقان پران‌تر از برق و هوا
How should those fearful ones overtake Love?—for Love's passion makes the (lofty) heaven its carpet—
کی رسند این خایفان در گرد عشق ** که آسمان را فرش سازد درد عشق
Unless perchance the favours of the (Divine) Light come and say, “Become free from the world and from this wayfaring;
جز مگر آید عنایتهای ضو ** کز جهان و زین روش آزاد شو