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پس بپرسیدش که آبت از کجاست ** دست را برداشت کز سوی شماست
- So he asked him, “Whence hast thou water?” He lifted his hand, (indicating) that it came from heaven.
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گفت هر گاهی که خواهی میرسد ** بیز جاه و بیز حبل من مسد
- He (the pilgrim) said, “Does it come whenever thou wilt, without (any) well and without (any) rope of palm-fibre?
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مشکل ما حل کن ای سلطان دین ** تا ببخشد حال تو ما را یقین 3800
- Solve our difficulty, O Sultan of the Religion, in order that thy (spiritual) experience may give us certain faith.
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وانما سری ز اسرارت به ما ** تا ببریم از میان زنارها
- Reveal to us one of thy mysteries, that we may cut from our waists the cords (of infidelity).”
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چشم را بگشود سوی آسمان ** که اجابت کن دعای حاجیان
- He (the ascetic) opened his eyes towards heaven, saying, “(O God), answer the prayer of the pilgrims!
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رزق جویی را ز بالا خو گرم ** تو ز بالا بر گشودستی درم
- I am accustomed to seeking daily bread from above: Thou hast opened to me the door from above,
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ای نموده تو مکان از لامکان ** فی السماء رزقکم کرده عیان
- O Thou who from non-spatiality hast brought space into view, and hast made manifest (the fact that) in heaven is your daily bread.”
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در میان این مناجات ابر خوش ** زود پیدا شد چو پیل آب کش 3805
- In the midst of this orison a fair cloud suddenly appeared, like a water bearing elephant,
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همچو آب از مشک باریدن گرفت ** در گو و در غارها مسکن گرفت
- And began to pour down rain, like water from a water-skin: the rain-water settled in the ditch and in the hollows.
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ابر میبارید چون مشک اشکها ** حاجیان جمله گشاده مشکها
- The cloud kept raining tears, like a water-skin, and the pilgrims all opened their water-skins.