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  • ذکر و فکری فارغ از رنج دماغ ** کردمی با ساکنان چرخ لاغ‌‌
  • With a memory and thought free from brain-sickness, I would frolic with the dwellers in Heaven.

  • چشم بسته عالمی می‌‌دیدمی ** ورد و ریحان بی‌‌کفی می‌‌چیدمی‌‌ 2095
  • With eye shut I would be seeing a (whole) world, without a hand I would be gathering roses and basil.”

  • مرغ آبی غرق دریای عسل ** عین ایوبی شراب و مغتسل‌‌
  • The water-bird (his soul) was plunged in a sea of honey— the fountain of Job, to drink and wash in,

  • که بدو ایوب از پا تا به فرق ** پاک شد از رنجها چون نور شرق‌‌
  • Whereby Job, from his feet to the crown of his head, was purged of afflictions (and made pure) like the light of the sunrise.

  • مثنوی در حجم گر بودی چو چرخ ** درنگنجیدی در او زین نیم برخ‌‌
  • If the Mathnawí were as the sky in magnitude, not half the portion of this (mystery) would find room in it,

  • کان زمین و آسمان بس فراخ ** کرد از تنگی دلم را شاخ شاخ‌‌
  • For the exceeding broad earth and sky (of the material world) caused my heart, from (their) narrowness (in comparison with the spiritual universe), to be rent in pieces;

  • وین جهانی کاندر این خوابم نمود ** از گشایش پر و بالم را گشود 2100
  • And this world that was revealed to me in this dream (of the minstrel) has spread wide my wings and pinions because of (its vast) expansion.

  • این جهان و راهش ار پیدا بدی ** کم کسی یک لحظه‌‌ای آن جا بدی‌‌
  • If this world and the way to it were manifest, no one would remain there (in the material world) for a single moment.

  • امر می‌‌آمد که نی طامع مشو ** چون ز پایت خار بیرون شد برو
  • The (Divine) command was coming (to the minstrel)—“Nay, be not covetous: inasmuch as the thorn is out of thy foot, depart”—

  • مول مولی می‌‌زد آن جا جان او ** در فضای رحمت و احسان او
  • (Whilst) his soul was lingering there in the spacious demesne of His (God's) mercy and beneficence.

  • در خواب گفتن هاتف مر عمر را رضی الله عنه که چندین زر از بیت المال به آن مرد ده که در گورستان خفته است
  • How the heavenly voice spoke to ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, while he was asleep, saying, “Give a certain sum of gold from the public treasury to the man who is sleeping in the graveyard.”