Friend, is sugar sweeter or He who makes the sugar? Friend, is the moon fairer or He who makes the moon?
Forgo sugars, forgo moons; He knows something other, He makes something other.
In the sea are marvels besides pearls, but none like the Monarch who makes the sea and the pearls.
Besides the water is another water springing from a marvellous waterwheel; without flaw and unsleeping It provides sustenance to the heart.
Without knowledge it is not possible to fashion an image of a bath; how shall be that Knowledge which makes intellect and awareness?
Without knowledge you cannot extract oil from fat; consider then that Knowledge which makes sight from fat.
Souls are distraught, without eating and slumber, on account of the marvellous feast which He makes at the time of dawn.
Happy dawn, when that despair of every moon makes His two hands a belt around my waist!
Yonder sky laughs at the mustachios of that deluded one; that laughingstock makes himself an ass in the train of two or three asses.
That ass flings himself into gold as if into barley; he is heedless of the King who makes gems of stones.
I have made enough, enough, I have quit exhalation; the rest that Darling will speak, who makes of the ear an eye.
