Look at Love. It is joined to and merged with lovers.
Look at the soul become one with the land of soil.
How long will you be seeing this and that, good and bad?
Look and see that this and that are joined and merged together.
How long will you be saying, “This has a trace, that doesn’t?”
Look and see how the traceless one is merged with the one who has a trace.
How long will you be talking about this world, that world?
Look and see that that world is mixed and merged with this one.
The heart resembles a sultan. The tongue is his translator.
But, look at this sultan.
See how he has merged with the translator.
Mix and join together,
because that sky and the Earth are united for us.
Look at water and fire. Look at dust and wind.
They look as if they are enemies of each other,
but they get together like friends.
The wolf and the lamb, the lion and gazelle are opposites,
yet they get together with the majesty of the Brave One.
Look at this sultan.
Thanks to His kindness, the thorn and the rose have united in his rose garden.
Look at that cloud.
Because of its abundance, it has gathered so much water.
Watch the sign of Union to learn how spring and autumn
get together and are unified.
They are opposites,
but they become one, just like a bow and arrow.
Be silent while chewing sugar.
To mix sugar with advice is not the proper thing to do.
Shems of Tebriz keeps appearing in my heart.
There is no one who matches His union with me.
Divan-i Kebir, Volume 9, ghazal 125, verses 1266-1279-, pages 192-193.