شه نوازیدش که هستی یادگار ** کرد او را هم بدان پرسش شکار
The King greeted him affectionately, saying, “Thou art a keepsake (from thy brother to me)”; and by this enquiry (gracious attention) made him too his prey.
از نواز شاه آن زار حنیذ ** در تن خود غیر جان جانی بدیذ
In consequence of the kindness shown (to him) by the King, that wretched man, (who was) roasted (in the fire of love), found in his body a soul other than the (animal) soul.
در دل خود دید عالی غلغله ** که نیابد صوفی آن در صد چله
He felt within his heart a sublime emotion which the Súfí does not experience during a hundred chilas.
عرصه و دیوار و کوه سنگ‌بافت ** پیش او چون نار خندان می‌شکافت 4640
Court-yard and wall and mountain woven of stone seemed to split open before him like a laughing (bursting) pomegranate.
ذره ذره پیش او هم‌چون قباب ** دم به دم می‌کرد صدگون فتح باب
One by one, the atoms (of the universe) were momently opening their doors to him, like tents, in a hundred diverse ways.
باب گه روزن شدی گاه شعاع ** خاک گه گندم شدی و گاه صاع
The door would become now the window, now the sunbeams; the earth would become now the wheat, now the bushel.
در نظرها چرخ بس کهنه و قدید ** پیش چشمش هر دمی خلق جدید
In (men's) eyes the heavens are very old and threadbare; in his eye ’twasa new creation at every moment.
روح زیبا چونک وا رست از جسد ** از قضا بی شک چنین چشمش رسد
When the beauteous spirit is delivered from the body, no doubt an eye like this will be conferred upon it by (Divine) destiny.
صد هزاران غیب پیشش شد پدید ** آنچ چشم محرمان بیند بدید 4645
A hundred thousand mysteries were revealed to him: he beheld that which the eyes of the initiated behold.
آنچ او اندر کتب بر خوانده بود ** چشم را در صورت آن بر گشود
He opened (the inward) eye (and gazed) on the (ideal) form of that which he had (only) read in books.