When the hand of love became acquainted with my soul, it washed it.

My soul, which worshipped idols, reached (purified) hands through the hand of love.

In the ear of my heart, (Love) said, "That soul has attained salvation through our love."

This heart made thousands of souls sacrificed for that word of its salvation.

Because of jealousy, when the soul fell, (Love) said, "Fortune will not leap either."

This heart and soul of mine have settled and are waiting for its (fortune's) not leaping.

When (Love) is in non-existence, it exists, and in existence, there is no (true) existence.

A fire came into my soul and burned its (perceived) existence.

When the decree of the life of the fortunate soul read the number fifty-six,

(Love) erased it and wrote eternity on the scroll of its sixty (years).

The lord of the spirit, Shams al-Din, from the abundance of (his) loftiness,

Gabriel himself does not know the place of his sitting for (receiving) revelation.

When my intellect saw his (Shams's) cup, it became broken like a flask.

(Love) bestowed endless soundness upon that brokenness of it (the intellect).

When his (Shams's) love saw my soul, which is above this existence,

It gave height, through his (Shams's) fortune, to its highness and lowness.

Although you are a lion-catcher, O heart, fear that gazelle,

For lions are helpless before that intoxicated gazelle of his (Shams).

When (Love), with the life-giving sword, struck the neck of death,

(Love) descended from the horse of fortune and kissed his (Love's) hand.

On that day when, in the realm of Alast (pre-existence), the call came from God,

Give, O Tabriz, from the beginning, the "yes" sayers of Alast to him (Shams).