Love is not in grace, knowledge, books, and papers

Whatever people say, that way is not the way of lovers

Know the branch of love in eternity, the root of love in everlastingness

This tree has no support on the throne, the earth, and the stem

We deposed reason and limited desire

For this majesty is not worthy of this reason and these morals

As long as you are longing, know that your longing is an idol

When you become the beloved, then there is no longing

The seafaring man is always on the board of fear and hope

When the board and the man are annihilated, there is nothing but absorption

Shams Tabrizi, you are the sea and also the pearl

Because your being is entirely nothing but the secret of the creator