(This is) in order that every seeker may attain to the object of his search, and that everything destined to set may go to its point of setting.
تا به مطلب در رسد هر طالبی ** تا به غرب خود رود هر غاربی
No object of search is withheld from the seeker: the sun is paired with heat and the cloud with water.
نیست هر مطلوب از طالب دریغ ** جفت تابش شمس و جفت آب میغ
The present world is the Creator's penitentiary: since you have chosen (to incur) punishment, suffer punishment!1890
هست دنیا قهرخانه‌ی کردگار ** قهر بین چون قهر کردی اختیار
Contemplate the bones and hair of the punished ones (whom) the sword of (Divine) punishment overthrew on sea and land.
استخوان و موی مقهوران نگر ** تیغ قهر افکنده اندر بحر و بر
Consider the bird's feathers and feet (lying) around the trap and silently expounding (the nature of) God's punishment.
پر و پای مرغ بین بر گرد دام ** شرح قهر حق کننده بی‌کلام
He (the worldling) dies and leaves a (sepulchral) vault to occupy his place; and (in the case of) one who has lain for ages (in the earth), even the vault has disappeared.
مرد او بر جای خرپشته نشاند ** وآنک کهنه گشت هم پشته نماند
The justice of God hath mated every one (with one of his own kind)—elephant with elephant and gnat with gnat.
هر کسی را جفت کرده عدل حق ** پیل را با پیل و بق را جنس بق
The familiar associates of Ahmad (Mohammed) were the Four Friends, (while) the familiars of Bú Jahl were ‘Utba and Dhu ’l-Khimár.1895
مونس احمد به مجلس چار یار ** مونس بوجهل عتبه و ذوالخمار
The Ka‘ba of Gabriel and the (celestial) spirits is a Lotus-tree; the qibla of the belly-slave is a table-cloth (covered with dishes of food).
کعبه‌ی جبریل و جانها سدره‌ای ** قبله‌ی عبدالبطون شد سفره‌ای
The qibla of the gnostic is the light of union (with God); the qibla of the philosopher's intellect is phantasy.
قبله‌ی عارف بود نور وصال ** قبله‌ی عقل مفلسف شد خیال