The eye is an attractor of beautiful persons from these (different) quarters of the town; the brain (nose) is seeking (to attract) scents from the rose-garden,
زانک حس چشم آمد رنگ کش ** مغز و بینی می‌کشد بوهای خوش
Because the sense peculiar to the eye is an attractor of colour, while the brain and nose attract sweet perfumes.
زین کششها ای خدای رازدان ** تو به جذب لطف خودمان ده امان
O Lord who knowest the secret, do Thou preserve us from these attractions by the attraction of Thy grace!
غالبی بر جاذبان ای مشتری ** شاید ار درماندگان را وا خری 2905
Thou, O Purchaser, art dominant over (all) attractors: it would be fitting if Thou redeem the helpless.”
رو به شه آورد چون تشنه به ابر ** آنک بود اندر شب قدر آن بدر
He turned his face to the King as a thirsty man to a cloud— he who on the Night of Power was the Full-moon's own.
چون لسان وجان او بود آن او ** آن او با او بود گستاخ‌گو
Since his tongue and his spirit were His (the King's), (he was not afraid, for) he who is His may converse with Him boldly.
گفت ما گشتیم چون جان بند طین ** آفتاب جان توی در یوم دین
He said, “We have been bound (in chains) like the spirit in its prison of clay: Thou art the Sun (illuminator) of the spirit on the Day of Judgement.
وقت آن شد ای شه مکتوم‌سیر ** کز کرم ریشی بجنبانی به خیر
O King whose course is concealed (from view), the time is come for Thee graciously to make a movement (sign) with Thy beard in clemency.
هر یکی خاصیت خود را نمود ** آن هنرها جمله بدبختی فزود 2910
Each one (of us) has displayed his specialty: all those talents have (only) increased (our) ill-fortune.
آن هنرها گردن ما را ببست ** زان مناصب سرنگوساریم و پست
Those talents have bound our necks, by those high attainments we are (thrown) headlong and (laid) low.