- Thy grace saith to our heart, “Go, O thou who hast become in pawn to the buttermilk of My love.
- فضل تو گوید دل ما را که رو ** ای شده در دوغ عشق ما گرو
- Thou hast fallen, like a gnat, into My buttermilk: O gnat, thou art not intoxicated, thou art the wine (itself).
- چون مگس در دوغ ما افتادهای ** تو نهای مست ای مگس تو بادهای
- O gnat, the vultures become intoxicated by thee, when thou ridest on the ocean of honey.
- کرگسان مست از تو گردند ای مگس ** چونک بر بحر عسل رانی فرس
- The mountains are tipsy with thee (and dance) like motes; the point and the compass and the line are in thy hand (control).
- کوهها چون ذرهها سرمست تو ** نقطه و پرگار و خط در دست تو
- The torment at which they tremble is trembling at thee: every costly pearl is cheap to thee.” 4210
- فتنه که لرزند ازو لرزان تست ** هر گرانقیمت گهر ارزان تست
- If God gave me five hundred mouths, I would sing in description (praise) of thee, O (my) soul and world;
- گر خدا دادی مرا پانصد دهان ** گفتمی شرح تو ای جان و جهان
- (But) I have (only) one mouth, and even that one is crushed with shame before thee, O knower of the mystery.
- یک دهان دارم من آن هم منکسر ** در خجالت از تو ای دانای سر
- In sooth I am not more crushed than non-existence, from the mouth of which (all) these peoples have come (forth).
- منکسرتر خود نباشم از عدم ** کز دهانش آمدستند این امم
- A hundred thousand impressions of the Unseen World are waiting to spring forth graciously and kindly from non-existence.
- صد هزار آثار غیبی منتظر ** کز عدم بیرون جهد با لطف و بر
- Because of thy urgency my head is reeling: oh, I am dead in the presence of that bounty. 4215
- از تقاضای تو میگردد سرم ** ای ببرده من به پیش آن کرم
- Our desire (for thee) arises from thy urgency: wherever there is a wayfarer, ’tis the pull of God (that draws him on).
- رغبت ما از تقاضای توست ** جذبهی حقست هر جا رهروست
- Does the dust leap upward without a wind? Does a ship voyage without the sea?
- خاک بیبادی به بالا بر جهد ** کشتی بیبحر پا در ره نهد
- None (ever) died in the presence of the Water of Life: compared with thy water the Water of Life is (mere) dregs.
- پیش آب زندگانی کس نمرد ** پیش آبت آب حیوانست درد
- The Water of Life is the goal of those to whom life is dear: by water the garden is (made) verdant and smiling.
- آب حیوان قبلهی جان دوستان ** ز آب باشد سبز و خندان بوستان
- (But) those who quaff the cup of death are living through His love: they have torn their hearts away from life and the Water of Life. 4220
- مرگ آشامان ز عشقش زندهاند ** دل ز جان و آب جان بر کندهاند
- When the water of Thy love gave us its hand (was gained by us), the Water of Life became worthless in our sight.
- آب عشق تو چو ما را دست داد ** آب حیوان شد به پیش ما کساد
- Every soul derives freshness from the Water of Life, but Thou art the Water (Source) of the Water of Life.
- ز آب حیوان هست هر جان را نوی ** لیک آب آب حیوانی توی
- Thou didst bestow on me a (spiritual) death and a resurrection continually, that I might experience the conquering power of that bounty (of Thine).
- هر دمی مرگی و حشری دادیم ** تا بدیدم دست برد آن کرم
- This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.
- همچو خفتن گشت این مردن مرا ** ز اعتماد بعث کردن ای خدا
- If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water. 4225
- هفت دریا هر دم ار گردد سراب ** گوش گیری آوریش ای آب آب
- Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?
- عقل لرزان از اجل وان عشق شوخ ** سنگ کی ترسد ز باران چون کلوخ
- This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.
- از صحاف مثنوی این پنجمست ** بر بروج چرخ جان چون انجمست
- Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.
- ره نیابد از ستاره هر حواس ** جز که کشتیبان استارهشناس
- The lot of the others is naught but looking (at it): they are ignorant of its auspiciousness and (fortunate) conjunction.
- جز نظاره نیست قسم دیگران ** از سعودش غافلند و از قران
- During the nights till daybreak make thyself familiar with devil-burning stars like these, 4230
- آشنایی گیر شبها تا به روز ** با چنین استارهای دیوسوز