شب نرفتی هوش بی‌فرمان من ** زیر دام من بدی مرغان من 2325
At night my consciousness would not go (from me) without my bidding, and my birds (senses and faculties) would be under my trap.
بودمی آگه ز منزلهای جان ** وقت خواب و بیهشی و امتحان
I should be aware of the stages (of the journey) of the soul (both) at the time of sleep and unconsciousness and (at the time of) tribulation.
چون کفم زین حل و عقد او تهیست ** ای عجب این معجبی من ز کیست
Inasmuch as my hand is (made) empty by this (sovereign) power of His to loose and bind, oh, I wonder, from whom comes this self-conceit of mine?
دیده را نادیده خود انگاشتم ** باز زنبیل دعا برداشتم
I have even deemed that what I saw was not seen (by me), and (like a beggar) I have again held up the basket of invocation.
چون الف چیزی ندارم ای کریم ** جز دلی دلتنگ‌تر از چشم میم
Like alif, I possess nothing, O Gracious One, except a heart more constricted with anguish than the eye of mim.
این الف وین میم ام بود ماست ** میم ام تنگست الف زو نر گداست 2330
This alif and this mím are the mother (umm) of our existence: the mím of umm is narrow (distressful), and the alif is (begging for deliverance) from it (like) a sturdy beggar.
آن الف چیزی ندارد غافلیست ** میم دلتنگ آن زمان عاقلیست
(The state denoted by) ‘alif possesses nothing’ is forgetfulness (unconsciousness); the distressful mím is (denotes) the time of rationality (consciousness).
در زمان بیهشی خود هیچ من ** در زمان هوش اندر پیچ من
During the time of unconsciousness I am nothing at all; during the time of consciousness I am in torment.
هیچ دیگر بر چنین هیچی منه ** نام دولت بر چنین پیچی منه
Do not lay another nothing upon a nothing like this; do not put the name of ‘(worldly) fortune’ upon a torment like this.
خود ندارم هیچ به سازد مرا ** که ز وهم دارم است این صد عنا
Truly (the state of) ‘I possess nothing’ suits me better, since these hundred troubles arise from imagining that I possess (something).
در ندارم هم تو داراییم کن ** رنج دیدم راحت‌افزاییم کن 2335
Just in (the state where) I possess nothing do Thou act in sovereign fashion towards me. I have suffered pain: do Thou increase my pleasure.
هم در آب دیده عریان بیستم ** بر در تو چونک دیده نیستم
I will just stand naked in (a flood of) tears at Thy gate, since I have no sight.
آب دیده‌ی بنده‌ی بی‌دیده را ** سبزه‌ای بخش و نباتی زین چرا
Do Thou bestow on the tears of Thy sightless slave a verdure and vegetation from this (bountiful) pasture;
ور نمانم آب آبم ده ز عین ** هم‌چو عینین نبی هطالتین
And if I leave no tears (in my eyes), do Thou give me tears (flowing abundantly) from an eye like the two streaming eyes of the Prophet.
او چو آب دیده جست از جود حق ** با چنان اقبال و اجلال و سبق
Since he, with all that high fortune and majesty and pre-eminence, sought tears from the bounty of God,
چون نباشم ز اشک خون باریک‌ریس ** من تهی‌دست قصور کاسه‌لیس 2340
How should not I, an empty-handed destitute lick-platter, spin fine webs of blood-stained tears?
چون چنان چشم اشک را مفتون بود ** اشک من باید که صد جیحون بود
Inasmuch as an eye like that (of the Prophet) is enamoured of tears, it behoves my tears to be (like) a hundred great rivers.”
قطره‌ای زان زین دو صد جیحون به است ** که بدان یک قطره انس و جن برست
A single drop of those (tears) is better than these two hundred great rivers, for by that single drop mankind and the Jinn were saved.
چونک باران جست آن روضه‌ی بهشت ** چون نجوید آب شوره‌خاک زشت
Since that Garden of Paradise sought rain, how should not the foul briny soil seek water?
ای اخی دست از دعا کردن مدار ** با اجابت یا رد اویت چه کار
O comrade, do not refrain from invoking (God): what business do you have with His acceptance or rejection (of your prayer)?
نان که سد و مانع این آب بود ** دست از آن نان می‌بباید شست زود 2345
Since bread (worldliness) was the barrier and obstacle to this water (tears), you must quickly wash your hands of that bread.
خویش را موزون و چست و سخته کن ** ز آب دیده نان خود را پخته کن
Make yourself harmonious and congruous and balanced: let your bread be baked well with (burning) tears.
آواز دادن هاتف مر طالب گنج را و اعلام کردن از حقیقت اسرار آن
How the Voice from heaven called to the seeker of the treasure and acquainted him with the truth of the mysteries thereof.
اندرین بود او که الهام آمدش ** کشف شد این مشکلات از ایزدش
He was (engaged) in this (prayer) when inspiration came to him and these difficulties were solved for him by God,
کو بگفتت در کمان تیری بنه ** کی بگفتندت که اندر کش تو زه
Saying, “It (the Divine intimation) told you to put an arrow to the bow, (but) when were you told to pull the bowstring (hard)?
او نگفتت که کمان را سخت‌کش ** در کمان نه گفت او نه پر کنش
It did not tell you to draw the bow hard: it bade you put (the arrow) to the bow, not ‘shoot with your full strength.’