The water in this channel has been changed many times: the reflexion of the moon and of the stars remains unaltered.
آن مبدل شد درین جو چند بار ** عکس ماه و عکس اختر بر قرار
Therefore its foundation is not in the running water; nay, but in the regions of the breadth (wide expanse) of Heaven.
پس بنااش نیست بر آب روان ** بلک بر اقطار عرض آسمان
These attributes are like Ideal stars: know that they are stablished in the sphere of the Ideas (Realities).3180
این صفتها چون نجوم معنویست ** دانک بر چرخ معانی مستویست
The beauteous are the mirror of His beauty: love for them is the reflexion of the desire of which He is the (real) object.
خوب‌رویان آینه‌ی خوبی او ** عشق ایشان عکس مطلوبی او
This cheek and mole goes (back) to the Source thereof: how should a phantom continue in the water for ever?
هم به اصل خود رود این خد و خال ** دایما در آب کی ماند خیال
The whole sum of pictured forms (phenomena) is a (mere) reflexion in the water of the river: when you rub your eye, (you will perceive that) all of them are really He.
جمله تصویرات عکس آب جوست ** چون بمالی چشم خود خود جمله اوست
Again, his (the debtor's) reason said (to him), “Abandon this seeing double: vinegar is grape-syrup and grape-syrup is vinegar.
باز عقلش گفت بگذار این حول ** خل دوشابست و دوشابست خل
Since, from defect (of vision), you have called the Khwája ‘other’ (than God), be ashamed (contrite) before the jealous King, O man of double sight.3185
خواجه را چون غیر گفتی از قصور ** شرم‌دار ای احول از شاه غیور
Do not suppose the Khwája, who has passed beyond the aether (the ninth celestial sphere), to be homogeneous with these mice of darkness.
خواجه را که در گذشتست از اثیر ** جنس این موشان تاریکی مگیر
Regard the Khwája as spirit, do not regard him as gross body: regard him as marrow, do not regard him as bone.
خواجه‌ی جان بین مبین جسم گران ** مغز بین او را مبینش استخوان