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گفت من با حق دعاها کرده‌ام ** اندرین لابه بسی خون خورده‌ام
- He (the poor man) said, “I have offered (many) prayers to God, I have borne much toil and pain in this supplication.
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من یقین دارم دعا شد مستجاب ** سر بزن بر سنگ ای منکرخطاب
- I possess the certainty (that) the prayer has been answered. Dash your head against the stones, O foul-spoken one!”
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گفت گرد آیید هین یا مسلمین ** ژاژ بینید و فشار این مهین 2320
- He cried, “Hey, gather round, O Moslems! Behold the drivel and raving of this imbecile!
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ای مسلمانان دعا مال مرا ** چون از آن او کند بهر خدا
- O Moslems, for God’s sake, how should prayer make my property belong to him?
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گر چنین بودی همه عالم بدین ** یک دعا املاک بردندی بکین
- If it were so, by means of a single prayer of this kind the whole world would carry off (one another’s) possessions by force.
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گر چنین بودی گدایان ضریر ** محتشم گشته بدندی و امیر
- If it were so, the blind beggars would have become grandees and princes;
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روز و شب اندر دعااند و ثنا ** لابه‌گویان که تو ده‌مان ای خدا
- (For) they are (engaged) day and night in invocation and praise (of God), uttering entreaties and crying, ‘O God, do Thou give unto us!
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تا تو ندهی هیچ کس ندهد یقین ** ای گشاینده تو بگشا بند این 2325
- Unless Thou give, assuredly no one will give (us anything): O Opener, do Thou open the lock of this (bounty)!’
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مکسب کوران بود لابه و دعا ** جز لب نانی نیابند از عطا
- Supplication and prayer is the means whereby the blind earn their livelihood, (yet) they get no gift but a crust of bread.”
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خلق گفتند این مسلمان راست‌گوست ** وین فروشنده‌ی دعاها ظلم‌جوست
- The people said, “This Moslem speaks the truth, and this prayer-monger is one who seeks to act unjustly.
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این دعا کی باشد از اسباب ملک ** کی کشید این را شریعت خود بسلک
- How should this prayer be a means of acquiring property? When forsooth did the religious Law enter this on the roll?
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بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا
- A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.
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در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو 2330
- In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!”
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او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو
- He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.
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در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی
- Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”
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من نمی‌کردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها
- Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”
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دید یوسف آفتاب و اختران ** پیش او سجده‌کنان چون چاکران
- Joseph saw (in dream) the sun and the stars bowing low before him, like servants.
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اعتمادش بود بر خواب درست ** در چه و زندان جز آن را می‌نجست 2335
- He relied upon the true dream: in the dungeoun and prison he sought nothing but that.
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ز اعتماد او نبودش هیچ غم ** از غلامی وز ملام و بیش و کم
- Because of his reliance upon that, he cared naught for servitude or reproach or (anything else whether) more or less.
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اعتمادی داشت او بر خواب خویش ** که چو شمعی می‌فروزیدش ز پیش
- He had a (great) reliance upon his dream which was shining in front of him like a candle.
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چون در افکندند یوسف را به چاه ** بانگ آمد سمع او را از اله
- When they cast Joseph into the well, there came to his ear a cry from God-
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که تو روزی شه شوی ای پهلوان ** تا بمالی این جفا در رویشان
- “O paladin, one day thou wilt become king, so that thou mayst rub this wrong upon their faces.”
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قایل این بانگ ناید در نظر ** لیک دل بشناخت قایل را ز اثر 2340
- He who utters this cry is not visible, but the heart (of Joseph) recognized the Speaker from the effect (of the words.)
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قوتی و راحتی و مسندی ** در میان جان فتادش زان ندا
- From that (Divine) allocution a (great) strength and peace and support fell into the midst of his soul.
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چاه شد بر وی بدان بانگ جلیل ** گلشن و بزمی چو آتش بر خلیل
- Through that Majestical cry the well became to him a rose-garden and banquet, as the fire to Abraham.