- (To be) in love with God's love and then (desire) a wage! (To be) a trusted Gabriel and then a thief!
- عاشق عشق خدا وانگاه مزد ** جبرئیل متمن وانگاه دزد
- In the eyes of that wretched lover of Laylá the kingdom of the world was (worthless as) a vegetable.
- عاشق آن لیلی کور و کبود ** ملک عالم پیش او یک تره بود
- Earth and gold were alike in his eyes. What of gold? (Even) his life had no value (for him). 2720
- پیش او یکسان شده بد خاک و زر ** زر چه باشد که نبد جان را خطر
- Lions and wolves and wild beasts were acquainted with him and gathered round him like kinsfolk,
- شیر و گرگ و دد ازو واقف شده ** هم‌چو خویشان گرد او گرد آمده
- (Knowing) that this man had become entirely purged of animality and filled with love, and that his flesh and fat were poisonous (to them).
- کین شدست از خوی حیوان پاک پاک ** پر ز عشق و لحم و شحمش زهرناک
- The sweets scattered by Reason are poison to the wild beast, because the good of (that which is) good is antagonistic to (that which is) evil.
- زهر دد باشد شکرریز خرد ** زانک نیک نیک باشد ضد بد
- The wild beast dare not devour the flesh of the lover: Love is known both to the good and the evil;
- لحم عاشق را نیارد خورد دد ** عشق معروفست پیش نیک و بد
- And if the wild beast devour him even parabolically, the lover's flesh will become poison and kill him. 2725
- ور خورد خود فی‌المثل دام و ددش ** گوشت عاشق زهر گردد بکشدش
- Everything except love is devoured by Love: to the beak of Love the two worlds are (but) a single grain.
- هر چه جز عشقست شد ماکول عشق ** دو جهان یک دانه پیش نول عشق
- Does a grain ever devour the bird? Does the manger ever feed on the horse?
- دانه‌ای مر مرغ را هرگز خورد ** کاهدان مر اسپ را هرگز چرد