Tears are (originally) blood and have been turned by grief into water: idle tears have not the value of earth.
اشک خونست و به غم آبی شده ** می‌نیرزد خاک خون بیهده
He (the Arab) made the whole of himself despicable, like Iblís: a piece of this whole is naught but vile.
کل خود را خوار کرد او چون بلیس ** پاره‌ی این کل نباشد جز خسیس
I am the (devoted) slave of him who will not sell his existence save to that bounteous and munificent Sovereign,490
من غلام آنک نفروشد وجود ** جز بدان سلطان با افضال و جود
(So that) when he weeps, heaven begins to weep, and when he moans (in supplication), the celestial sphere begins to cry, “O Lord!”
چون بگرید آسمان گریان شود ** چون بنالد چرخ یا رب خوان شود
I am the (devoted) slave of that high-aspiring copper which humbles itself to naught but the Elixir.
من غلام آن مس همت‌پرست ** کو به غیر کیمیا نارد شکست
Lift up in prayer a broken hand: the loving kindness of God flies towards the broken.
دست اشکسته برآور در دعا ** سوی اشکسته پرد فضل خدا
If thou hast need of deliverance from this narrow dungeon (the world), O brother, go without delay (and cast thyself) on the fire.
گر رهایی بایدت زین چاه تنگ ** ای برادر رو بر آذر بی‌درنگ
Regard God's contrivance and abandon thine own contrivance: oh, by His contrivance (all) the contrivance of contrivers is put to shame.495
مکر حق را بین و مکر خود بهل ** ای ز مکرش مکر مکاران خجل
When thy contrivance is naughted in the contrivance of the Lord, thou wilt open a most marvellous hiding-place,
چونک مکرت شد فنای مکر رب ** برگشایی یک کمینی بوالعجب
Of which hiding-place the least (treasure) is everlasting life (occupied) in ascending and mounting higher.
که کمینه‌ی آن کمین باشد بقا ** تا ابد اندر عروج و ارتقا
Explaining that no evil eye is so deadly to a man as the eye of self-approval, unless his eye shall have been transformed by the Light of God, so that “he hears through Me and sees through Me,” and (unless) his self shall have become selfless.
در بیان آنک هیچ چشم بدی آدمی را چنان مهلک نیست کی چشم پسند خویشتن مگر کی چشم او مبدل شده باشد به نور حق که بی یسمع و بی یبصر و خویشتن او بی‌خویشتن شده