The heart was dumbfounded by the eternal “I”-hood: this (unreal) “I”-hood became insipid and opprobrious (in its sight).
از انایی ازل دل دنگ شد ** این انایی سرد گشت و ننگ شد
The spirit was made glad by that “I”-hood without “I” and sprang away from the “I”-hood of the world.
زان انای بی‌انا خوش گشت جان ** شد جهان او از انایی جهان
Since it has been delivered from “I,” it has now become “I”: blessings on the “I” that is without affliction;4140
از انا چون رست اکنون شد انا ** آفرینها بر انای بی عنا
For it is fleeing (from its unreal “I”-hood), and (the real) “I”-hood is running after it, since it saw it (the spirit) to be selfless.
کو گریزان و انایی در پیش ** می‌دود چون دید وی را بی ویش
(If) you seek it (the real “I”-hood), it will not become a seeker of you: (only) when you have died (to self) will that which you seek become your seeker.
طالب اویی نگردد طالبت ** چون بمردی طالبت شد مطلبت
(If) you are living, how should the corpse-washer wash you? (If) you are seeking, how should that which you seek go in search of you?
زنده‌ای کی مرده‌شو شوید ترا ** طالبی کی مطلبت جوید ترا
If the intellect could discern the (true) way in this question, Fakhr-i Rází would be an adept in religious mysteries;
But since he was (an example of the saying that) whoso has not tasted does not know, his intelligence and imaginations (only) increased his perplexity.4145
لیک چون من لمن یذق لم یدر بود ** عقل و تخییلات او حیرت فزود
How should this “I” be revealed by thinking? That “I” is revealed (only) after passing away from self (faná).
کی شود کشف از تفکر این انا ** آن انا مکشوف شد بعد از فنا
These intellects in their quest (of the real “I”) fall into the abyss of incarnation (hulúl) and ittihád.
می‌فتد این عقلها در افتقاد ** در مغا کی حلول و اتحاد