- The Water of Life is the goal of those to whom life is dear: by water the garden is (made) verdant and smiling.
- آب حیوان قبله‌ی جان دوستان ** ز آب باشد سبز و خندان بوستان
- (But) those who quaff the cup of death are living through His love: they have torn their hearts away from life and the Water of Life. 4220
- مرگ آشامان ز عشقش زنده‌اند ** دل ز جان و آب جان بر کنده‌اند
- When the water of Thy love gave us its hand (was gained by us), the Water of Life became worthless in our sight.
- آب عشق تو چو ما را دست داد ** آب حیوان شد به پیش ما کساد
- Every soul derives freshness from the Water of Life, but Thou art the Water (Source) of the Water of Life.
- ز آب حیوان هست هر جان را نوی ** لیک آب آب حیوانی توی
- Thou didst bestow on me a (spiritual) death and a resurrection continually, that I might experience the conquering power of that bounty (of Thine).
- هر دمی مرگی و حشری دادیم ** تا بدیدم دست برد آن کرم
- This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.
- هم‌چو خفتن گشت این مردن مرا ** ز اعتماد بعث کردن ای خدا
- If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water. 4225
- هفت دریا هر دم ار گردد سراب ** گوش گیری آوریش ای آب آب
- Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?
- عقل لرزان از اجل وان عشق شوخ ** سنگ کی ترسد ز باران چون کلوخ
- This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.
- از صحاف مثنوی این پنجمست ** بر بروج چرخ جان چون انجمست
- Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.
- ره نیابد از ستاره هر حواس ** جز که کشتیبان استاره‌شناس