هر شبی از دام تن ارواح را ** می‌‌رهانی می‌‌کنی الواح را

Every night Thou freest the spirits from the body's snare, and dost erase (the impressions on) the tablets (of the mind).

می‌‌رهند ارواح هر شب زین قفس ** فارغان، نه حاکم و محکوم کس‌‌

The spirits are set free every night from this cage, independent, neither ruling nor ruled by anyone.

شب ز زندان بی‌‌خبر زندانیان ** شب ز دولت بی‌‌خبر سلطانیان‌‌ 390

At night prisoners are unconscious of their prison, at night governors are unconscious of their power.

نه غم و اندیشه‌‌ی سود و زیان ** نه خیال این فلان و آن فلان‌‌

There is no sorrow, no thought of gain or loss, no fancy of this person or that person.

حال عارف این بود بی‌‌خواب هم ** گفت ایزد هم رقود زین مرم‌‌

This is the state of the ‘árif (gnostic), even without sleep: God said, (Thou wouldst deem them awake) whilst they slept. Shy not at this.

خفته از احوال دنیا روز و شب ** چون قلم در پنجه‌‌ی تقلیب رب‌‌

He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world, like a pen in the hand of the Lord's control.

آن که او پنجه نبیند در رقم ** فعل پندارد به جنبش از قلم‌‌

One who sees not the hand in the writing thinks (that) the act (of writing proceeds) from the pen by means of movement.

شمه‌‌ای زین حال عارف وانمود ** خلق را هم خواب حسی در ربود 395

He (God) hath shown forth some part of this state of the ‘árif, (inasmuch as) the intellect too is carried off (overtaken) by sleep of the senses.

رفته در صحرای بی‌‌چون جانشان ** روحشان آسوده و ابدانشان‌‌

Their souls are gone into the desert that is without description: their spirits and bodies are at rest;

وز صفیری باز دام اندر کشی ** جمله را در داد و در داور کشی‌‌

And with a whistle thou leadest them back to the snare, leadest them all (back) to justice and to the judge.