- The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?
- شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست ** عالمش میراند از خود جرم چیست
- “The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.
- جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست
- We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;
- واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانهچین
- That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”
- تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود
- (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence. 985
- آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر
- They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.
- باز میگردند چون استارها ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها
- (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.
- پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه
- That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.
- آنک کرد او در رخ خوبانت دنگ ** نور خورشیدست از شیشهی سه رنگ
- The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.
- شیشههای رنگ رنگ آن نور را ** مینمایند این چنین رنگین بما
- When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed. 990
- چون نماند شیشههای رنگرنگ ** نور بیرنگت کند آنگاه دنگ