The moon scatters her light and the dog bays: how should the dog feed on the light of the moon?
مه فشاند نور و سگ وع وع کند ** سگ ز نور ماه کی مرتع کند
Those who travel by night and move swiftly with the moon on her way, how should they relinquish their journey because of the dog's yelping?
شب روان و همرهان مه بتگ ** ترک رفتن کی کنند از بانگ سگ
The part is speeding like an arrow towards the Whole: how should it stop on account of any old hag?
جزو سوی کل دوان مانند تیر ** کی کند وقف از پی هر گنده‌پیر
The gnostic is the soul of religion and the soul of piety: gnosis is the result of past asceticism.2090
جان شرع و جان تقوی عارفست ** معرفت محصول زهد سالفست
Asceticism is the labour of sowing; gnosis is the growth of the seed.
زهد اندر کاشتن کوشیدنست ** معرفت آن کشت را روییدنست
Therefore the (ascetic's) hard struggle and his firm religious conviction are like the body, (while) the soul of this sowing is the growth (of the seed) and its harvesting.
پس چو تن باشد جهاد و اعتقاد ** جان این کشتن نباتست و حصاد
He (the gnostic) is both the command to do right and the right (itself); he is both the revealer of mysteries and that which is revealed.
امر معروف او و هم معروف اوست ** کاشف اسرار و هم مکشوف اوست
He is our king to-day and to-morrow: the husk is for ever a slave to his goodly kernel,
شاه امروزینه و فردای ماست ** پوست بنده‌ی مغز نغزش دایماست
When the Shaykh (Halláj) said ‘I am God’ and carried it through (to the end), he throttled (vanquished) all the blind (sceptics).2095
چون انا الحق گفت شیخ و پیش برد ** پس گلوی جمله کوران را فشرد
When a man's ‘I’ is negated (and eliminated) from existence, then what remains? Consider, O denier.
چون انای بنده لا شد از وجود ** پس چه ماند تو بیندیش ای جحود