- The scent of the saffron of union produces (happy) laughter; the smell of the onion of absence (produces) tears.
- خنده بوی زعفران وصل داد ** گریه بوهای پیاز آن بعاد
- Every (other) one has in his heart a hundred objects of desire, (but) this is not the way of love and fondness.
- هر یکی را هست در دل صد مراد ** این نباشد مذهب عشق و وداد
- Love's sun in the day-time is the (Face of the) Beloved: the sun is as a veil over that Face.
- یار آمد عشق را روز آفتاب ** آفتاب آن روی را هم‌چون نقاب
- He that does not know (distinguish) the veil from the Face of the Beloved is a sun-worshipper: keep thy hand off (keep thyself aloof) from him. 4045
- آنک نشناسد نقاب از روی یار ** عابد الشمس است دست از وی بدار
- He is both the lover's day and daily bread, He is both the lover's heart and heart-burning.
- روز او و روزی عاشق هم او ** دل همو دلسوزی عاشق هم او
- (God's) fishes receive directly from the Essence of the Water their bread and water and clothes and drugs and sleep.
- ماهیان را نقد شد از عین آب ** نان و آب و جامه و دارو و خواب
- He (the lover) is like a child getting milk from the breast: he knows nothing in the two worlds except the milk.
- هم‌چو طفلست او ز پستان شیرگیر ** او نداند در دو عالم غیر شیر
- The child knows the milk and yet he does not know it: (intellectual) consideration has no means of entrance here.
- طفل داند هم نداند شیر را ** راه نبود این طرف تدبیر را
- This circular (issued by Love) made the spirit crazy to find (both) the Opener and that which is opened (by Him). 4050
- گیج کرد این گردنامه روح را ** تا بیابد فاتح و مفتوح را
- It (the spirit) is not crazy in going (on that quest); nay, (for) ’tis the Sea within it that bears it along, not a torrent or a river.
- گیج نبود در روش بلک اندرو ** حاملش دریا بود نه سیل و جو