ز آهنین دیوارها نافذ شدی ** توبره با نور حق چه فن زدی 3080
It (the Light) would penetrate through iron walls: what contrivance could the veil employ against the Light of God?
گشته بود آن توبره صاحب تفی ** بود وقت شور خرقه‌ی عارفی
That veil had become glowing: it was the mantle of a gnostic in the moment of ecstasy.
زان شود آتش رهین سوخته ** کوست با آتش ز پیش آموخته
The fire is deposited (becomes immanent) in the tinder because it (the tinder) is already familiar with the fire.
وز هوا و عشق آن نور رشاد ** خود صفورا هر دو دیده باد داد
And in sooth Safúrá, from desire and love for that Light of true guidance, sacrificed both her eyes.
اولا بر بست یک چشم و بدید ** نور روی او و آن چشمش پرید
At first she closed one eye and beheld the light of his (Moses') face (with the other); and that eye was lost.
بعد از آن صبرش نماند و آن دگر ** بر گشاد و کرد خرج آن قمر 3085
Afterwards she could no longer restrain herself and (therefore) she opened the other (eye) and spent it on that Moon.
هم‌چنان مرد مجاهد نان دهد ** چون برو زد نور طاعت جان دهد
Even so the (spiritual) warrior (first) gives away his bread; (but) when the light of devotion strikes on him, he gives away his life.
پس زنی گفتش ز چشم عبهری ** که ز دستت رفت حسرت می‌خوری
Then a woman said to her, “Art thou grieving for the jonquil-like eye that thou hast lost?”
گفت حسرت می‌خورم که صد هزار ** دیده بودی تا همی‌کردم نثار
“I am grieving,” she replied, “(to think) would that I had a hundred thousand eyes to lavish (on that Moon)!
روزن چشمم ز مه ویران شدست ** لیک مه چون گنج در ویران نشست
The window, (which is) mine eye, has been ruined by the Moon; but the Moon is seated (there) like the (buried) treasure in the ruin.
کی گذارد گنج کین ویرانه‌ام ** یاد آرد از رواق و خانه‌ام 3090
How should the treasure let this ruin of mine have (any regretful) memory of my porch and house?”
نور روی یوسفی وقت عبور ** می‌فتادی در شباک هر قصور
The light of Joseph's face, when he was passing by, used to fall on the latticed windows of every villa,
پس بگفتندی درون خانه در ** یوسفست این سو به سیران و گذر
And the people within the house would say, “Joseph is taking a walk in this quarter and passing by”;
زانک بر دیوار دیدندی شعاع ** فهم کردندی پس اصحاب بقاع
For they would see the radiance on the wall, and then the landlords (inmates) would understand (the cause of it).
خانه‌ای را کش دریچه‌ست آن طرف ** دارد از سیران آن یوسف شرف
The house that has its window in that direction is ennobled by that Joseph's walking for recreation.
هین دریچه سوی یوسف باز کن ** وز شکافش فرجه‌ای آغاز کن 3095
Hark, open a window towards Joseph and begin to delight yourself by looking at him through the aperture.
عشق‌ورزی آن دریچه کردنست ** کز جمال دوست سینه روشنست
The business of love is to make that window (in the heart), for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved.
پس هماره روی معشوقه نگر ** این به دست تست بشنو ای پدر
Therefore gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved! This is in your power. Hearken, O father!
راه کن در اندرونها خویش را ** دور کن ادراک غیراندیش را
Make a way for yourself into the innermost parts: banish the perception that is concerned with other (than God).
کیمیا داری دوای پوست کن ** دشمنان را زین صناعت دوست کن
You possess an elixir: treat your (vile) skin (with it), and by means of this art (alchemy) make your enemies your friends.
چون شدی زیبا بدان زیبا رسی ** که رهاند روح را از بی‌کسی 3100
When you have become beauteous you will attain unto the Beauteous One who delivers the spirit from friendlessness.
پرورش مر باغ جانها را نمش ** زنده کرده مرده‌ی غم را دمش
His moisture (grace) is nourishment for the garden of spirits; His breath revives him that has died of anguish.
نه همه ملک جهان دون دهد ** صد هزاران ملک گوناگون دهد
He does not (only) bestow (on you) the entire kingdom of the base world; He bestows a hundred thousand kingdoms of diverse kinds.
بر سر ملک جمالش داد حق ** ملکت تعبیر بی‌درس و سبق
God gave him (Joseph), in addition to the kingdom of beauty, the kingdom of interpretation (of dreams) without his having studied and taken lessons (in that science).
ملکت حسنش سوی زندان کشید ** ملکت علمش سوی کیوان کشید
The kingdom of beauty led him to prison; the kingdom of knowledge led him to Saturn.