ز رسم و راہ شریعت نکردہ ام تحقیقجز اینکہ منکر عشق است کافر و زندیق

I have never discovered well. Law’s way, and the wont thereof,But know him an infidel. Who denieth the power of Love.

مقام آدم خاکی نہاد دریا بندمسافران حرم را خدا دہد توفیق

The travellers of the Shrine. O may God succour and aid,That they may truly divine. Man’s rank, who of clay was made.

من از طریق نپرسم، رفیق می جویمکہ گفتہ اند نخستین رفیق و باز طریق

I do not ask of the Way; The Friend is my only quest,For so I have heard men say, "The friend, then the way, that’s best!’

کند تلافی ذوق آنچنان حکیم فرنگفروغ بادہ فزون تر کند بجام عقیق

Europe’s philosopher. So misseth the rapture fine,In the red bowl shines more clear. The gleam of the crimson wine.

ہزار بار نکو تر متاع بی بصریز دانشی کہ دل او را نمی کند تصدیق

Better a man were blind, Better a thousand wise,Than knowledge to have in mind. That the seeing heart denies.

بہ پیچ و تاب خرد گرچہ لذت دگر استیقین سادہ دلان بہ ز نکتہ ہای دقیق

Though intellect’s jugglery. Peculiar joy impart,Better than subtlety. Is the faith of a simple heart.

کلام و فلسفہ از لوح دل فروشستمضمیر خویش گشادم بہ نشتر تحقیق

I have washed my heart’s tablets clean. Of the learning that charmed my youth,Opened my teeming brain. With the lancet of utter truth.

ز آستانۂ سلطان کنارہ می گیرمنہ کافرم کہ پرستم خدای بی توفیق

Far from the threshold now. Of the Sultan’s gate I have strayed;No infidel I, to bow. To a god who can nothing aid.