- Likewise, know this power of the Abdál of God to be (derived) from God, not from viands and from trays (of food).
- همچنان این قوت ابدال حق ** هم ز حق دان نه از طعام و از طبق
- Their bodies too have been moulded of the Light, so that they have transcended the Spirit and the Angel.
- جسمشان را هم ز نور اسرشته‌اند ** تا ز روح و از ملک بگذشته‌اند
- Inasmuch as thou art endowed with the qualities of the Almighty, pass beyond the fire of the maladies (of the sensual self), like Khalíl.
- چونک موصوفی باوصاف جلیل ** ز آتش امراض بگذر چون خلیل
- To thee also the fire will become coolness and safety, O thou to whose complexion (constitution) the elements are slaves. 10
- گردد آتش بر تو هم برد و سلام ** ای عناصر مر مزاجت را غلام
- The elements are the substance of every complexion, but this complexion of thine is superior to every grade.
- هر مزاجی را عناصر مایه‌است ** وین مزاجت برتر از هر پایه است
- This complexion of thine is of the simple (uncompounded) world; it has now gathered up (amassed and absorbed) the attributes of Unity.
- این مزاجت از جهان منبسط ** وصف وحدت را کنون شد ملتقط
- Oh, alas, the area of the people's understandings is exceeding narrow: the people have no throat.
- ای دریغا عرصه‌ی افهام خلق ** سخت تنگ آمد ندارد خلق حلق
- O Light of the Truth, through the keenness of thy perception thy sweetmeat bestows a throat (even) on (one dull as) stone.
- ای ضیاء الحق بحذق رای تو ** حلق بخشد سنگ را حلوای تو
- Mount Sinai in the (Divine) epiphany gained a throat, so that it quaffed the wine; but it could not bear the wine. 15
- کوه طور اندر تجلی حلق یافت ** تا که می نوشید و می را بر نتافت
- Thereby the mountain was shattered and cloven asunder: have ye seen a mountain amble like a camel?
- صار دکا منه وانشق الجبل ** هل رایتم من جبل رقص الجمل
- Bestowal of mouthfuls comes (to pass) from every one to some one, (but) bestowal of a throat is the work of God alone.
- لقمه‌بخشی آید از هر کس به کس ** حلق‌بخشی کار یزدانست و بس
- He bestows a throat on the body and on the spirit; He bestows a separate throat for every part of you.
- حلق بخشد جسم را و روح را ** حلق بخشد بهر هر عضوت جدا
- This He bestows at the time when you become Majestical and become void of guile and deceit,
- این گهی بخشد که اجلالی شوی ** وز دغا و از دغل خالی شوی
- So that you will not tell the King's secret to any one nor pour out sugar before flies. 20
- تا نگویی سر سلطان را به کس ** تا نریزی قند را پیش مگس
- The secrets of the (Divine) Majesty are drunk in by the ear of that one who, like the lily, hath a hundred tongues and is dumb.
- گوش آنکس نوشد اسرار جلال ** کو چو سوسن صدزبان افتاد و لال
- The grace of God bestows a throat on the earth, to the end that it may drink water and make a hundred herbs to grow.
- حلق بخشد خاک را لطف خدا ** تا خورد آب و بروید صد گیا
- Again, He bestows on the creature of earth (the animal) a throat and lip, in order that it may eat its (the earth's) herbage in desire.
- باز خاکی را ببخشد حلق و لب ** تا گیاهش را خورد اندر طلب
- When the animal has eaten its herbage, it becomes fat: the animal becomes a mouthful for Man and goes (disappears).
- چون گیاهش خورد حیوان گشت زفت ** گشت حیوان لقمه‌ی انسان و رفت
- In turn it becomes earth and becomes a devourer of Man, when the spirit and the sight are separated from Man. 25
- باز خاک آمد شد اکال بشر ** چون جدا شد از بشر روح و بصر
- I beheld the atoms (of created existence) with their mouths all open: if I should tell of their food, it (the tale) would become long.
- ذره‌ها دیدم دهانشان جمله باز ** گر بگویم خوردشان گردد دراز
- Provisions have (their) provision from His bounty; His universal grace is the nourisher of them that nourish.
- برگها را برگ از انعام او ** دایگان را دایه لطف عام او
- He bestoweth gifts (of sustenance) on the gifts (which sustain life), for how should wheat spring forth without (receiving) any sustenance?
- رزقها را رزقها او می‌دهد ** زانک گندم بی غذایی چون زهد
- There is no end to the explanation of this matter. I have told a portion: you may know the (remaining) portions (by analogy).
- نیست شرح این سخن را منتهی ** پاره‌ای گفتم بدانی پاره‌ها
- Know that all the world is eating and eaten; know that those who have everlasting life (in God) are fortunate and accepted. 30
- جمله عالم آکل و ماکول دان ** باقیان را مقبل و مقبول دان
- This world and its inhabitants are (in the end) dispersed; that (other) world and its travellers are continuing (for ever).
- این جهان و ساکنانش منتشر ** وان جهان و سالکانش مستمر