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  • یوسفان چنگال در دلوش زده  ** رسته از چاه و شه مصری شده 
  • The Josephs cling to his bucket, escape from the well, and become kings of Egypt.

  • دلوهای دیگر از چه آب‌جو  ** دلو او فارغ ز آب اصحاب‌جو 
  • The other buckets seek water from the well: his bucket has no concern with the water, it seeks (only) friends (in trouble).

  • دلوها غواص آب از بهر قوت  ** دلو او قوت و حیات جان حوت 
  • The (other) buckets plunge into the water for food: his bucket is the food and life of the soul of the fish.

  • دلوها وابسته‌ی چرخ بلند  ** دلو او در اصبعین زورمند  4575
  • The (other) buckets are attached to the lofty wheel (of Fortune): his bucket is (held) in two Almighty fingers.

  • دلو چه و حبل چه و چرخ چی  ** این مثال بس رکیکست ای اچی 
  • What bucket and what cord and what wheel? This is a very weak comparison, O pasha.

  • از کجا آرم مثالی بی‌شکست  ** کفو آن نه آید و نه آمدست 
  • (But) whence shall I get a comparison that is without frailty? One to match him (the knower of God) will not come, and never has come, (to hand).

  • صد هزاران مرد پنهان در یکی  ** صد کمان و تیر درج ناوکی 
  • (He is) a hundred thousand men concealed in a single man, a hundred bows and arrows enclosed in a single blowpipe;

  • ما رمیت اذ رمیتی فتنه‌ای  ** صد هزاران خرمن اندر حفنه‌ای 
  • A (type of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, a temptation (for the ignorant), a hundred thousand stacks (of grain) in a handful.

  • آفتابی در یکی ذره نهان  ** ناگهان آن ذره بگشاید دهان  4580
  • (He is) a sun hidden in a mote: suddenly that mote opens its mouth (and reveals the sun).

  • ذره ذره گردد افلاک و زمین  ** پیش آن خورشید چون جست از کمین 
  • The heavens and the earth crumble to atoms before that Sun when he springs forth from ambush.