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قصه‌ی راز حلیمه گویمت ** تا زداید داستان او غمت 915
- I will tell you the story of Halíma's mystic experience, that her tale may clear away your trouble.
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مصطفی را چون ز شیر او باز کرد ** بر کفش برداشت چون ریحان و ورد
- When she parted Mustafá from (her) milk, she took him up on the palm of her hand as (tenderly as though he were) sweet basil and roses,
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می‌گریزانیدش از هر نیک و بد ** تا سپارد آن شهنشه را به جد
- Causing him to avoid every good or evil (hap), that she might commit that (spiritual) emperor to (the care of) his grandsire.
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چون همی آورد امانت را ز بیم ** شد به کعبه و آمد او اندر حطیم
- Since she was bringing the (precious) trust in fear (for its safety), she went to the Ka‘ba and came into the Hatím.
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از هوا بشنید بانگی کای حطیم ** تافت بر تو آفتابی بس عظیم
- From the air she heard a cry—“O Hatím, an exceedingly mighty Sun hath shone upon thee.
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ای حطیم امروز آید بر تو زود ** صد هزاران نور از خورشید جود 920
- O Hatím, to-day there will suddenly come upon thee a hundred thousand beams from the Sun of munificence.
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ای حطیم امروز آرد در تو رخت ** محتشم شاهی که پیک اوست بخت
- O Hatím, to-day there will march into thee with pomp a glorious King, whose harbinger is Fortune.
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ای حطیم امروز بی‌شک از نوی ** منزل جانهای بالایی شوی
- O Hatím, to-day without doubt thou wilt become anew the abode of exalted spirits.
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جان پاکان طلب طلب و جوق جوق ** آیدت از هر نواحی مست شوق
- The spirits of the holy will come to thee from every quarter in troops and multitudes, drunken with desire.”
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گشت حیران آن حلیمه زان صدا ** نه کسی در پیش نه سوی قفا
- Halíma was bewildered by that voice: neither in front nor behind was any one (to be seen).