گفت حق فرمود ما را بنده‌‌ای است ** صافی و شایسته و فرخنده‌‌ای است‌‌

He said, “God said, ‘We have a servant: he is a pure and worthy and blessed one.’

پیر چنگی کی بود خاص خدا ** حبذا ای سر پنهان حبذا

How should an old harper be the chosen of God? O Hidden Mystery, how excellent, how excellent art Thou!”

بار دیگر گرد گورستان بگشت ** همچو آن شیر شکاری گرد دشت‌‌

Once again he wandered about the graveyard, like the hunting lion about the desert.

چون یقین گشتش که غیر پیر نیست ** گفت در ظلمت دل روشن بسی است‌‌

When it became certain to him that none was there except the old man, he said, “Many an illumined heart is (to be found) in darkness.”

آمد او با صد ادب آن جا نشست ** بر عمر عطسه فتاد و پیر جست‌‌ 2175

He came and sat down there (beside him) with a hundred marks of respect. ‘Umar happened to sneeze, and the old man sprang to his feet.

مر عمر را دید و ماند اندر شگفت ** عزم رفتن کرد و لرزیدن گرفت‌‌

He saw ‘Umar and stood fixed in amazement: he resolved to go and began to tremble (with fear).

گفت در باطن خدایا از تو داد ** محتسب بر پیرکی چنگی فتاد

He said within himself, “O God, help, I beseech thee! The Inspector has fallen upon a poor old harper.”

چون نظر اندر رخ آن پیر کرد ** دید او را شرمسار و روی زرد

When ‘Umar looked on the old man's countenance, he saw him ashamed and pale.

پس عمر گفتش مترس از من مرم ** کت بشارتها ز حق آورده‌‌ام‌‌

Then ‘Umar said to him, “Fear not, do not flee from me, for I have brought thee glad tidings from God.

چند یزدان مدحت خوی تو کرد ** تا عمر را عاشق روی تو کرد 2180

How often has God praised thy disposition, so that He has made ‘Umar in love with thy face!