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آنچنان کرد و از آن افزون که گفت ** او بخفت و بخت و اقبالش نخفت
- Thus He did, and (even) more than He said: he (the Prophet) slept (the sleep of death), but his fortune and prosperity slumbered not.
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جان بابا چونک ساحر خواب شد ** کار او بی رونق و بی‌تاب شد 1215
- “O soul of thy father, when a magician goes to sleep, his work becomes tarnished and dim.”
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هر دو بوسیدند گورش را و تفت ** تا بمصر از بهر آن پیگار زفت
- Both (the magician's sons) kissed his grave and turned away (and came) to Egypt for the purpose of this mighty struggle.
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چون به مصر از بهر آن کار آمدند ** طالب موسی و خانه‌ی او شدند
- When they came to Egypt for the sake of that enterprise, they sought after Moses and his house.
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اتفاق افتاد کان روز ورود ** موسی اندر زیر نخلی خفته بود
- It chanced that on the day of their arrival Moses was asleep under a palm-tree,
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پس نشان دادندشان مردم بدو ** که برو آن سوی نخلستان بجو
- So the folk gave them a clue to him, saying, “Go, seek yonder in the direction of the palm-grove.”
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چون بیامد دید در خرمابنان ** خفته‌ای که بود بیدار جهان 1220
- When he (the magician's son) came (thither), he espied amongst the date trees a sleeper who was the wake fullest man in the world.
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بهر نازش بسته او دو چشم سر ** عرش و فرشش جمله در زیر نظر
- For pleasure's sake he had shut the two eyes of his head, (but) all Heaven and Earth were under his gaze.
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ای بسا بیدارچشم و خفته‌دل ** خود چه بیند دید اهل آب و گل
- Oh, (there is) many a one whose eye is awake and whose heart is asleep: what, in truth, should be seen by the eyes of creatures of water and clay?
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آنک دل بیدار دارد چشم سر ** گر بخسپد بر گشاید صد بصر
- (But) he that keeps his heart awake—though the eye of his head may sleep, it (his heart) will open a hundred eyes.