- When it has become like gold of the mine in redness, then without tongue its boast is “I am the fire.”
- چون به سرخی گشت همچون زر کان ** پس انا النار است لافش بیزبان
- It has become glorified by the colour and nature of the fire: it says, “I am the fire, I am the fire. 1350
- شد ز رنگ و طبع آتش محتشم ** گوید او من آتشم من آتشم
- I am the fire; if thou have doubt and suspicion, make trial, put thy hand upon me.
- آتشم من گر ترا شک است و ظن ** آزمون کن دست را بر من بزن
- I am the fire; if it seem dubious to thee, lay thy face upon my face for one moment.”
- آتشم من بر تو گر شد مشتبه ** روی خود بر روی من یک دم بنه
- When Man receives light from God, he is worshipped by the angels because of his being chosen (by God).
- آدمی چون نور گیرد از خدا ** هست مسجود ملایک ز اجتبا
- Also, (he is) worshipped by that one whose spirit, like the angel, has been freed from contumacy and doubt.
- نیز مسجود کسی کاو چون ملک ** رسته باشد جانش از طغیان و شک
- What fire? What iron? Close your lips: do not laugh at the beard of the assimilator's simile. 1355
- آتش چه آهن چه لب ببند ** ریش تشبیه مشبه را مخند
- Do not set foot in the Sea, speak not of It: on the shore of the Sea keep silence, biting your lips (in amazement).
- پای در دریا منه کم گوی از آن ** بر لب دریا خمش کن لب گزان
- Though (one equal to) a hundred like me would not have the strength to bear the Sea, yet I cannot refrain from the drowning waters of the Sea.
- گر چه صد چون من ندارد تاب بحر ** لیک مینشکیبم از غرقاب بحر
- May my soul and mind be a sacrifice to the Sea: this Sea has paid the blood-price of mind and soul.
- جان و عقل من فدای بحر باد ** خونبهای عقل و جان این بحر داد
- I will march in It as long as my feet move; when feet remain not, I am (plunged) in It, like ducks.
- تا که پایم میرود رانم در او ** چون نماند پا چو بطانم در او
- An unrespectful person present is better than one absent: though the ring be crooked, is it not on the door? 1360
- بیادب حاضر ز غایب خوشتر است ** حلقه گر چه کژ بود نه بر در است
- O defiled in body, frequent the tank: outside of the tank, how shall a man be cleansed?
- ای تن آلوده به گرد حوض گرد ** پاک کی گردد برون حوض مرد
- The pure one who has been banished from the tank becomes far also from his purity.
- پاک کاو از حوض مهجور اوفتاد ** او ز پاکی خویش هم دور اوفتاد
- The purity of this tank is infinite; the purity of bodies is of little weight,
- پاکی این حوض بیپایان بود ** پاکی اجسام کم میزان بود
- Because the heart (though it) is a tank, yet in ambush (out of sight) it has a hidden channel to the Sea.
- ز انکه دل حوض است لیکن در کمین ** سوی دریا راه پنهان دارد این
- Your finite purity wants reinforcement; otherwise, number is diminished in (the course of) expenditure. 1365
- پاکی محدود تو خواهد مدد ** ور نه اندر خرج کم گردد عدد
- The water said to the defiled one, “Hasten (to come) into me.” The defiled one said, “I feel shame before the water.”
- آب گفت آلوده را در من شتاب ** گفت آلوده که دارم شرم از آب
- Said the water, “Without me how shall this shame go? Without me how shall this defilement be removed?”
- گفت آب این شرم بیمن کی رود ** بیمن این آلوده زایل کی شود
- Every defiled one who hides from the water is (an example of the saying that) “Shame hinders Faith.”
- ز آب هر آلوده کاو پنهان شود ** الحیاء یمنع الإیمان بود
- The heart is muddied by the steps of the body's tank; the body is cleansed by the water of the heart's tanks.
- دل ز پایهی حوض تن گلناک شد ** تن ز آب حوض دلها پاک شد
- Haunt the steps of the heart's tank, O son; take heed and always beware of the steps of the body's tank. 1370
- گرد پایهی حوض دل گرد ای پسر ** هان ز پایهی حوض تن میکن حذر
- The sea of the body is dashing against the sea of the heart, (but) between them is a barrier which they shall not cross.
- بحر تن بر بحر دل بر هم زنان ** در میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان
- Whether you be straight (righteous) or crooked, always creep forwards to Him; do not creep backwards.
- گر تو باشی راست ور باشی تو کژ ** پیشتر میغژ بدو واپس مغژ
- If in the presence of kings there be danger to life, yet they that aspire cannot refrain from (presence with) Him.
- پیش شاهان گر خطر باشد به جان ** لیک نشکیبد از او با همتان