When laughter leaps forth from me, I keep laughter hidden from him; I make a sour face at him; I shout and scream at him.
If you joke and laugh at the sour ones, war arises; I have hidden my laughter, I drop tears at him.
A huge city is my body, grief on one side, I on the other; one side I have water from him, on the other fire.
With his sours I am sour, with his sugars I am sugar; he is my face, he is my back, through him I scratch the back of joy.
A hundred the likes of me and you have become drunk in his meadow, dancing, hand-clapping on the summit of every dome through him.
I am the parrot of candy and sugar, I eat only sugar; whatever sour is in the world, I am far and indifferent to it.
If he has given you sourness, to me he has given honey and sugar; he has made you jolting and lame, me smooth and even of pace.
Whoever travels not on this road, his path is all gully and steep; I who am on this royal road am on a level path through him.
My heart is the Masjid-i Aqs.¯a, my heart is the Paradise home; all my traces through him have become houris and light.
To whomsoever God gives laughter, laughter leaps from his mouth; if you doubt Him, I am altogether in acknowledgement of Him.
The rose’s portion is laughter, it has no weeping; what shall it do? Lilies and roses are blossoming in my conscious heart through Him.
Patience was saying, “I bear good tidings of union from Him; gratitude was saying, “I am the owner of stocks through Him.”
Reason was saying, “I am abstinent and sick through Him”; Love was saying “I am a magician and cutpurse through Him.”
Spirit was saying, “I am a pearl-possessing treasure through Him”; Treasure was saying, “I am at the foundation of the wall through Him.”
Ignorance was saying, “I am without knowledge and consciousness through Him”; Knowledge was saying, “I am the chief of the bazaar through Him.”
Abstinence was saying, “I understand the secrets through Him”; Poverty was saying, “I am without heart and turban through Him.”
If Shams-i H. aqq returns to me from Tabriz, all my discourses will be expounded and revealed through Him.
