- Love is (one) of the attributes of God who wants nothing: love for aught besides Him is unreal,
- عشق ز اوصاف خدای بی‌نیاز ** عاشقی بر غیر او باشد مجاز
- Because that (which is besides Him) is (but) a gilded beauty: its outside is (shining) light, (but) ’tis (like dark) smoke within.
- زانک آن حسن زراندود آمدست ** ظاهرش نور اندرون دود آمدست
- When the light goes and the smoke becomes visible, at that moment the unreal love is frozen up.
- چون رود نور و شود پیدا دخان ** بفسرد عشق مجازی آن زمان
- That beauty returns to its source; the body is left—foul-smelling, shameful, and ugly.
- وا رود آن حسن سوی اصل خود ** جسم ماند گنده و رسوا و بد
- The moonlight is returning to the moon: its reflexion goes off the black (dark) wall; 975
- نور مه راجع شود هم سوی ماه ** وا رود عکسش ز دیوار سیاه
- And then, (when) the water and clay (of the wall) are left without that ornament, the wall, (being) moonless, becomes (hideous) as a devil.
- پس بماند آب و گل بی آن نگار ** گردد آن دیوار بی مه دیووار
- When the gold flies from the surface of the base coin, that gold returns to its (original) mine and settles (there);
- قلب را که زر ز روی او بجست ** بازگشت آن زر بکان خود نشست
- Then the shamefully exposed copper is left (looking black) like smoke, and its lover is left looking blacker than it.
- پس مس رسوا بماند دود وش ** زو سیه‌روتر بماند عاشقش
- (But) the love of them that have (spiritual) insight is (fixed) on the gold-mine; necessarily it is (grows) greater every day,
- عشق بینایان بود بر کان زر ** لاجرم هر روز باشد بیشتر
- Because the mine hath no partner in aureity. Hail, O Gold-mine (of Reality), Thou concerning whom there is no doubt! 980
- زانک کان را در زری نبود شریک ** مرحبا ای کان زر لاشک فیک