When (the veil of) shame is rent asunder, I will publicly declare the mystery: how much (more) of this self-restraint and griping pain and tremor?
چون بدرد شرم گویم راز فاش ** چند ازین صبر و زحیر و ارتعاش
I have become concealed in shame, like the fringe (sewn on the inside of a garment): I will spring forth of a sudden from beneath this coverlet.575
در حیا پنهان شدم هم‌چون سجاف ** ناگهان بجهم ازین زیر لحاف
O comrades, the Beloved has barred the ways: we are lame deer and He a hunting lion.
ای رفیقان راهها را بست یار ** آهوی لنگیم و او شیر شکار
(For one who is) in the clutch of a fierce bloodthirsty lion where is any resource except resignation and acquiescence?
جز که تسلیم و رضا کو چاره‌ای ** در کف شیر نری خون‌خواره‌ای
He, like the sun, hath neither sleep nor food: He makes the spirits (also) to be without food and sleep,
او ندارد خواب و خور چون آفتاب ** روحها را می‌کند بی‌خورد و خواب
Saying, “Come, be Me or one with Me in nature, that thou mayest behold My Face when I unveil Myself.
که بیا من باش یا هم‌خوی من ** تا ببینی در تجلی روی من
And if thou hadst not beheld it, how shouldst thou have become so distraught? Thou wert earth, (and now) thou hast become one who seeks to be quickened (with spiritual life).”580
ور ندیدی چون چنین شیدا شدی ** خاک بودی طالب احیا شدی
If He has not given you provender from the (world that is) without spatial relations, how has your spiritual eye remained (fixed) on that region?
گر ز بی‌سویت ندادست او علف ** چشم جانت چون بماندست آن طرف
The cat became intent on (watching) the (mouse)-hole because she had (formerly) provisioned herself from that hole.
گربه بر سوراخ زان شد معتکف ** که از آن سوراخ او شد معتلف
Another cat prowls on the roof because she (formerly) obtained food by preying on birds.
گربه‌ی دیگر همی‌گردد به بام ** کز شکار مرغ یابید او طعام